Clade
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clade -- A monophyletic taxon; a group of organisms which includes the most recent common ancestor of all of its members and all of the descendants of that most recent common ancestor. From the Greek word "klados", meaning branch or twig.
Clade: All descendants of any given species. A single whole branch of a phylogeny. See Cladistics in Evolutionary Biology Notes and Cladistics in Kimball's Biology.
Clade
From Greek klados = branch. A branch of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor. A single phyletic group or line. Also cladus.
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clade A taxon or other group consisting of an ancestral species and all of its descendants, forming a distinct branch on a phylogenetic tree.
These clades are based on the most recent analysis of DNA sequences of several genes — both nuclear and mitochondrial — and the building of phylogenetic trees from these data.
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Clade: in cladistics, a group with a common set of shared derived characteristics persumed inherited from a common ancestor Cladistics: a methodology for reconstructing evolutionary relationships of taxa, both living and extinct, ...
Each subtree, whether it only contains one item or a hundred thousand, is called a clade.
There was some controversy over whether or not the dentist clade identified in the CDC study was reliable. Nucleotides in the HIV gp120 gene do not evolve in same way as in other genes.
Paleontologists believe that the sauropod clade evolved from a Triassic ancestor similar to Plateosaurus. Sauropods ate numerous types of plants, often specializing in plants of a certain height.
Cladistic analyses place the birds, alligators, and dinosaurs in the same clade, the Archosauria (or "ruling reptiles").
 See also: Organ, Species, Evolution, Plant, Animals
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