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Cladistics

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

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

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unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

synonym
cladistic analysis
possessive
Cladistics's
pluralpossessive
Cladisticses'