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phylogenetic trees

phylogenetic trees is the plural of phylogenetic tree.

Meaning of phylogenetic tree

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

Questions about phylogenetic trees

What is phylogenetic trees the plural of?
Phylogenetic trees is the plural of phylogenetic tree.

Words near phylogenetic trees in the dictionary

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

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