Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A branching, treelike diagram in which the endpoints of the branches represent individual species of organisms. It is used to illustrate phylogenetic relationships and to show points at which various species are presumed to have diverged from common ancestral forms.
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- noun taxonomy A
branching treelike graphical representation of thephylogenetic relationships betweenorganisms showing whichtaxa have branched fromcommon ancestors . - noun A
phylogenetic tree that is strictly the outcome of acladistic analysis.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a tree diagram used to illustrate phylogenetic relationships
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The data may come from shared characteristics, but a cladogram is a representation of hypothesized evolutionary relationships.
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Do you understand that every point on every line in a cladogram is a separate species that also has/had the potential of branching?
A New Book 2010
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The data may come from shared characteristics, but a cladogram is a representation of hypothesized evolutionary relationships.
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The cladogram is made by arbitrarily "placing things in the same group," But then, it is * tested* against the evidence.
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A cladogram is a tree diagram, and can be refigured as a nested hierarchy if grouped by branch and stem.
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A cladogram is a nested hierarchy that represents hypothesized evolutionary relationships
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A cladogram is a tree diagram, and can be refigured as a nested hierarchy if grouped by branch and stem.
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A cladogram is a nested hierarchy that represents hypothesized evolutionary relationships.
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The accompanying cladogram is a highly simplified attempt at depicting this consensus.
Goodbye, my giant predatory, cursorial, flightless hoatzin Darren Naish 2006
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The accompanying cladogram is a highly simplified attempt at depicting this consensus.
Archive 2006-11-01 Darren Naish 2006
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