Holophyletic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Holophyletic is an adjective meaning (biology) Forming a clade; monophyletic.
Meaning
(biology) Forming a clade; monophyletic.
Example Sentences
The bees have long appeared to constitute a holophyletic unit.
Cladistics aims to identify holophyletic groups (clades) comprising all the descendants of a common ancestor.
McCafferty and Edmunds (1979) divided all mayflies into Pannota and Schistonota, regarding Pannota to be holophyletic, and Schistonota to be paraphyletic.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include monophyletic, monophyletical, monophylogenic, monophylic, epiphyletic, homophyletic.
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