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phylogenetic tree

phylogenetic tree noun: a branching diagram illustrating the potential evolutionary relationships among biological organisms or other entities in which the tree-maker hypothesizes share a common ancestor.

Noun

phylogenetic tree (plural phylogenetic trees)

  1. A branching diagram illustrating the potential evolutionary relationships among biological organisms or other entities in which the tree-maker hypothesizes share a common ancestor.
    • 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.2011, Jacques Pepin, “The Source”, in The Origins of AIDS, 1st edition, →ISBN, page 22

phylogenetic tree meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Tagalog

phylogenetic tree in Tamil

இனவரலாற்று மரம், மரபினக் கிளைப்படம், உயிரினங்களின் தோற்றத்தை மரபியில், பரிணாமவியல்

phylogenetic tree in Malayalam

വംശവൃക്ഷം, വംശാവലിവൃക്ഷം

phylogenetic tree in Tagalog

tree diagram
lipmulaing punungkahoy

Forms of phylogenetic tree

pluralphylogenetic trees

Questions about phylogenetic tree

What does phylogenetic tree mean?
Phylogenetic tree means a branching diagram illustrating the potential evolutionary relationships among biological organisms or other entities in which the tree-maker hypothesizes share a common ancestor.
What is phylogenetic tree in Tamil?
Phylogenetic tree in Tamil is இனவரலாற்று மரம், மரபினக் கிளைப்படம், உயிரினங்களின் தோற்றத்தை மரபியில். See Phylogenetic tree meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is phylogenetic tree?
Phylogenetic tree is a noun.
What is the plural of phylogenetic tree?
The plural of phylogenetic tree is phylogenetic trees.

Words near phylogenetic tree in the dictionary

  1. phylodynamics
  2. phyloevolutionary
  3. phylogeneses
  4. phylogenesis
  5. phylogenetic
  6. phylogenetic tree
  7. phylogenetic trees
  8. phylogenetical
  9. phylogenetically
  10. phylogeneticist
  11. phylogeneticists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: phylogenetic tree (page history and authors); phylogenetic tree (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); phylogenetic tree (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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