phylogenetic tree
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
phylogenetic tree (plural phylogenetic trees)
- (biology) A branching diagram illustrating the potential evolutionary relationships among biological organisms or other entities which the tree-maker hypothesizes share a common ancestor.
- 2011, Jacques Pepin, “The Source”, in The Origins of AIDS, 1st edition, →ISBN, page 22:
- However, phylogenetic trees describe the relatedness between living organisms (and their classification) rather than ancestry. They measure the genetic distance between organisms, and identify the nearest relatives.
Hypernyms[edit]
- tree (structurally)
Translations[edit]
tree diagram
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References[edit]
- phylogenetic tree on Wikipedia.Wikipedia