phylogenetic tree
English
Noun
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, Pepin, Jacques, “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.
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Hypernyms
- tree (structurally)
Translations
tree diagram
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References
phylogenetic tree on Wikipedia.Wikipedia