Phylotype
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Phylotype is a noun meaning A proposed stage in the development of an embryo at which those characteristics of a particular phylum develop.
Meaning
A proposed stage in the development of an embryo at which those characteristics of a particular phylum develop.
More Meanings
- (microbiology, taxonomy) A phenetic grouping.
- To describe and categorise such phenetic groups.
Example Sentences
But DNA sequencing isolated the 167,000 different phylotypes (roughly equivalent to species) contained in the samples.
Word Forms
- phylotypes
- phylotyping
- phylotyped
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include phylogenicity, phylembryogenesis, phylogenesis, pleisiomorph, phylomorphospace, plesiomorph.
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