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monophyly  Holophyletic  Holophyletic group  holophyly  monophyletic
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In biological cladistics for the classification of organisms, monophyly is the condition of a taxonomic grouping being a clade – that is, a grouping of taxa which meets these criteria: the grouping contains its own most recent common ancestor, i.e. excludes non-descendants of that common ancestor the grouping contains all the descendants of that common ancestor, without exceptionMonophyly is contrasted with paraphyly and polyphyly as shown in the second diagram. Wikipedia
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In biological cladistics for the classification of organisms, monophyly is the condition of a taxonomic grouping being a clade – that is, a grouping of taxa which meets these criteria: the grouping contains its own most recent common ancestor, i.e. excludes non-descendants of that common ancestor the grouping contains all the descendants of that common ancestor, without exceptionMonophyly is contrasted with paraphyly and polyphyly as shown in the second diagram. Wikipedia
Taxon (group of organisms) which forms a clade, meaning that it consists of an ancestral species and all its descendants Wikidata
The condition of being monophyletic, of including all descendants from a given ancestral species. OmegaWiki
In cladistics, the condition of being monophyletic, of including all descendants from a given ancestral species. Wiktionary
Condition of being monophyletic. Wiktionary (translation)
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