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• Cladistics — For the scientific journal, see Cladistics (journal). Part of a series on Evolutionary Biology …   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 — 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 — кладистика система таксономической классификации организмов, основанная на определении родственных линий …   Англо-русский словарь по биотехнологиям

• cladistics — Биология: кладистика …   Универсальный англо-русский словарь

• Cladistics (journal) — Cladistics   Discipline Cladistics …   Wikipedia

• Outgroup (cladistics) — In cladistics or phylogenetics, an outgroup is a (monophyletic) group of organisms that serves as a reference group for determination of the evolutionary relationship among three or more monophyletic groups of organisms. The chosen outgroup is… …   Wikipedia

• cladism — cladistics …   Dictionary of ichthyology



• Textual criticism — Carmina Cantabrigiensia, Manuscript C, folio 436v, 11th century Textual criticism (or lower criticism) is a branch of literary criticism that is concerned with the identification and removal of transcription errors in the texts of manuscripts.… …   Wikipedia