Definition of Cladistics

1. 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.

Exact synonyms: Cladistic Analysis
Generic synonyms: Taxonomy

Definition of Cladistics

1. Noun. (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). ¹

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Definition of Cladistics

1. [n]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cladistics

cladding
claddings
clade
clades
cladi
cladic
cladinose
cladiosis
cladisitic analysis
cladism
cladisms
cladist
cladistic
cladistically
cladistics (current term)
cladists
clado-
cladoceran
cladocerans
cladode
cladodes
cladodial
cladogeneses
cladogenesis
cladogenetic
cladogram
cladograms
cladophore
cladophyll

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