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cladistic — [klə dis′tik] adj. of or pertaining to clades or cladistics * * * See cladistics. * * * … Universalium
cladistic — [klə dis′tik] adj. of or pertaining to clades or cladistics … English World dictionary
cladistic — adjective see cladistics … New Collegiate Dictionary
cladistic — cla·dis·tic … English syllables
cladistic — … Useful english dictionary
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 • Syn: ↑cladistics •… … Useful english dictionary
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 — For the scientific journal, see Cladistics (journal). Part of a series on Evolutionary Biology … Wikipedia
Phenetics — should not be confused with phonetics, the study of speech sounds, despite the similarity in pronunciation. In biology, phenetics, also known as taximetrics, is an attempt to classify organisms based on overall similarity, usually in morphology… … Wikipedia
Taxonomy — is the practice and science of classification. The word comes from the Greek Polytonic|τάξις , taxis (meaning order , arrangement ) and Polytonic|νόμος , nomos ( law or science ). Taxonomies, or taxonomic schemes, are composed of taxonomic units… … Wikipedia
