cladistics

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Noun cladistics has 1 sense

cladistics, cladisitic analysis - 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
--₁ is a kind of taxonomy

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Cladistics

Part of Speech: noun

Sense: a method of classification that groups organisms based on shared characteristics and common ancestry

Usage: Cladistics is widely used in the field of evolutionary biology for studying the relationships between different species.

Sample Sentence: The cladistics approach helped scientists determine the evolutionary relationships between various bird species.

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