ENGLISH DICTIONARY

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

  1. (microbiology, taxonomy) A phenetic grouping.
  2. 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

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include phylogenicity, phylembryogenesis, phylogenesis, pleisiomorph, phylomorphospace, plesiomorph.

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