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cladogram
  1. (taxonomy) A branching treelike graphical representation of the phylogenetic relationships between organisms showing which taxa have branched from common ancestors.
  2. (phylogenetics) A phylogenetic tree that is strictly the outcome of a cladistic analysis.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “The cladogram presented a comprehensive representation of the evolutionary relationships among the species in the clade analysis.”
      “The result of a cladistic analysis is a cladogram, a diagram of nested synapomorphies that defines relationships in a relative way.”
      “Biologists often specify the evolutionary relationships among organisms via a treelike diagram called a cladogram.”
clade
  1. (systematics) A group of animals or other organisms derived from a common ancestor species.
  2. (genetics) A higher level grouping of a genetic haplogroup.
cladist
  1. (systematics): A biologist who studies clades, an evolutionary biologist who studies the pattern of species interrelationships according to the principles of cladistics.
cladistics
  1. (systematics) An approach to biological systematics in which organisms are grouped based upon synapomorphies (shared derived characteristics) only, and not upon symplesiomorphies (shared ancestral characteristics).
  2. Examples:
    1. “Over the past ten years, cladistics and molecular systematics have begun to be applied to solve problems of bivalve evolutionary biology.”
      “Just like phenetic systematics, cladistics takes advantage of the availability of computer software to analyze large data sets.”
      “In general, recent cladistic analyses have not yet fully exploited the power of cladistics to test available competing hypotheses.”
cladogenesis
  1. An evolutionary splitting event in which each branch and its smaller branches forms a clade
  2. Examples:
    1. “This process of organic transformation includes anagenesis as well as cladogenesis.”
      “However, our results appeared sensitive to the prior model of cladogenesis, although the oldest estimates were obtained under a suboptimal model.”
      “The branching relationships of the trees reflect the relative relationships of ancestry, or cladogenesis.”
cladogeneses
  1. plural of cladogenesis
cladograms
  1. plural of cladogram
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The first group is identical to the commelinoid group of monocotyledons identified as a monophyletic clade in cladograms using the rbcL gene.”
      “Comparative DNA between different genera and species of a plant family can be shown with computer generated evolutionary trees called cladograms.”
      “Nonetheless, we have to have some kind of roadmap, and cladograms at least have the virtue of being testable.”
cladists
  1. plural of cladist
  2. Examples:
    1. “Contrary to some critics of parsimony methods, cladists neither deny the possibility that true ancestors are being sampled nor reject the reality of anagenesis.”
      Cladists attempt to create monophyletic groupings, ones that include ancestral taxa and all of the descendants.”
      “Continual improvement of phylogenetic hypotheses and associated improvements in nomenclature to reflect that increased knowledge is advocated by Practicing Cladists.”
clades
  1. plural of clade
  2. Examples:
    1. “Even the dentally unimaginative dinosaur clades often did better than this.”
      “Both the water ferns and Ceratopteris occur in clades with terrestrial ferns and the aquatic habit appears to be derived in these lineages.”
      “Among these clades are such diverse forms as arawanas, knifefishes, mormyrids, eels, tarpon, and herring.”
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