Look up: cladistics

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   Cladistics
   a methodology for reconstructing evolutionary relationships of taxa, both living and extinct, by using the distribution of shared derived characters.
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   Cladistics
   Cladistics is a method of classifying organisms based on common ancestry and the branching of the evolutionary family tree. Organisms that share common ancestors (and therefore have similar features) are grouped into taxonomic groups called clades. Cladistics can also be used to predict properties of yet-to-be discovered organisms.
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   cladistics
   [n] - a system of biological taxonomy based on the quantitative analysis of comparative data and used to reconstruct trees summarizing the (assumed) phylogenetic relations and evolutionary history of groups of organisms
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   Cladistics
   A method of inferring evolutionary ancestry by methodically comparing possible evolutionary relationships between organisms and selecting as most likely the relationships which require, for instance, the fewest number of evolutionary transformations between character states.
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   cladistics
   cladistic analysis noun a system of biological taxonomy based on the quantitative analysis of comparative data and used to reconstruct cladograms summarizing the (assumed) phylogenetic relations and evolutionary history of groups of organisms
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   Cladistics
   `Cladistics` is the hierarchical classification of species based on evolutionary ancestry. Cladistics is distinguished from other taxonomic classification systems because it focuses on evolution (rather than focusing on similarities between species), and because it places heavy emphasis on objective, quantitative analysis. Cladistics generates diagrams called `cladograms` that represent the evolutionary tree of life. DNA and RNA sequencing data a...
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   cladistics
   (from the article `evolution`) Maximum parsimony methods are related to cladistics, a very formalistic theory of taxonomic classification, extensively used with morphological and ...
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   cladistics
   cladistics (kludis'tiks) or phylogenetic systematics (fī"lōjunet'ik) , an approach to the classification of living things in which organisms are defined and grouped by the possession of one or more shared characteristics (called characters) that are derived from a common ance...
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