Meaning of holophyletic | Babel Free

Definitions

Forming a clade; monophyletic.

not-comparable

Examples

“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.”

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