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Cladogram |
Another name for a phylogenetic tree (a branching diagram that represents a hypothesis of evolutionary relationships of a group of organisms) |
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The organization of life forms into categories. For living things, a classification can be natural, if based on evolutionary relationships. An artificial classification is based other criteria and will obtain one or more non-monophyletic groups, and thus is consistent with the phylogeny of the organisms |
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Phylogenetic tree |
A diagram that portrays the hypothesized evolutionary ties and sequences of events that link taxa |
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Phylogenetic systematics |
A study of evolutionary relationships among organisms using shared derived characters |
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Systematics |
The study of the diversity of organisms |
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Tax on (taxa) |
An identifiable category of organisms (eg. Population, species, genus) |
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Taxonomy |
Discipline of classifying organisms |
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