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An approach to biological systematics in which organisms are grouped based upon synapomorphies (shared derived characteristics) only, and not upon symplesiomorphies (shared ancestral characteristics); a method of classifying organisms based on their evolutionary relationships instead of superficial characteristics.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Qualifier: systematics
Examples
- 2001, Clare Bates Congdon, Gaphyl: A Genetic Algorithms Approach to Cladistics, Luc de Raedt, Arno Siebes (editors), Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery: 5th European Conference PKDD 2001, Volume 5, Springer, LNAI 2168, page 67, This research investigates the use of genetic algorithms to solve problems from cladistics — a technique used by biologists to hypothesize the relationships between organisms.
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a system of biological taxonomy based on the quantitative analysis of comparative data and used to reconstruct cladograms summarizing the (assumed) phylogenetic relations and evolutionary history of groups of organisms
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: cladistic analysis
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: taxonomy
From clade + -istic, from Ancient Greek κλάδος (kládos, “branch”).
Across languages
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Catalan:
cladística
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Chinese Mandarin:
支序分類學 /支序分类学
(zhīxùfēnlèixué)
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French:
cladistique
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German:
Kladistik
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Greek:
κλαδιστική
(kladistikí)
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Korean:
분지학
(bunjihak)
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