phylogeny
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Phylogeny is important to everyday life in human society.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Phylogeny is the science that describes the relative connections between organisms, in terms of ancestral and descendant species.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
Phylogeny of iguanian lizards inferred from 29 nuclear loci, and a comparison of concatenated and species-tree approaches for an ancient, rapid radiation.
From Scientific American • Jan. 17, 2014
Figure 1: Phylogeny and constrained elements from the 29 eutherian mammalian genome sequences. a, A phylogenetic tree of all 29 mammals used in this analysis based on the substitution rates in the MultiZ alignments.
From Nature • Oct. 26, 2011
Phylogeny: the development of a genus, family, tribe or class: see ontogeny.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.
Vocabulary lists containing phylogeny
Evolutionary Biology - High School
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Evolutionary Biology - Middle School
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Evolutionary BIology - Evidence of Common Ancestry and Diversity - High School
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