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cladistics — [klə dis′tiks] n. a method of classifying living organisms, often using computer techniques, based on the relationships between phylogenetic branching patterns from a common ancestor: also cladism [klad′iz΄əm] … English World dictionary
Cladistics — For the scientific journal, see Cladistics (journal). Part of a series on Evolutionary Biology … Wikipedia
Cladistics (journal) — Cladistics Discipline Cladistics … Wikipedia
cladistics — noun plural but singular in construction Date: 1965 a system of biological taxonomy that defines taxa uniquely by shared characteristics not found in ancestral groups and uses inferred evolutionary relationships to arrange taxa in a branching… … New Collegiate Dictionary
cladistics — a method used by systematists to determine evolutionary relationships. The distribution of shared derived characters (synapomorphies) is used to test relationships and taxa can thus only be defined by genealogy or descent. Relationships of taxa… … Dictionary of ichthyology
cladistics — cladistic, adj. cladistically, adv. /kleuh dis tiks/, n. Biol. (used with a pl. v.) classification of organisms based on the branchings of descendant lineages from a common ancestor. [1965 70; cladist(ic) (see CLAD , ISTIC) + ICS] * * * … Universalium
cladistics — noun /kləˈdɪs.tɪks/ An approach to biological systematics in which organisms are grouped based upon synapomorphies (shared derived characteristics) only, and not upon symplesiomorphies (shared ancestral characteristics) … Wiktionary
cladistics — n. classification of organisms based on common ancestry (Biology) … English contemporary dictionary
cladistics — [klə dɪstɪks] plural noun [treated as sing.] Biology a method of classification of animals and plants into groups based on characteristics which originated in a common evolutionary ancestor. Derivatives cladism kladɪz(ə)m noun cladistic adjective … English new terms dictionary
cladistics — Method of classification that groups taxa hierarchically and parsimoniously into nested sets according to their synapomorphies; output is conventionally presented in the form of a cladogram … Expanded glossary of Cycad terms
