CLADISTIC ANALYSIS
Dictionary entry overview: What does cladistic analysis mean? • CLADISTIC ANALYSIS (noun)
The noun CLADISTIC ANALYSIS has 1 sense:
1. 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
Familiarity information: CLADISTIC ANALYSIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• CLADISTIC ANALYSIS (noun)
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
cladistic analysis; cladistics
Hypernyms ("cladistic analysis" is a kind of...):
taxonomy ((biology) study of the general principles of scientific classification)
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