NOUN
- a group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor
How To Use clade In A Sentence
- Furthermore, outgroup comparison (with macaques, for example) indicates that some of these characters are primitive for the cercopithecid clade that includes these species (Papionina). Archive 2006-06-01
- A clade is a group, consisting of a single organism and all of its descendants. A Disclaimer for Behe?
- By the way, nothing cladistically out-of-line with the term reptile, so long as we agree that Reptilia is a clade in which case it includes Aves and excludes Synapsida of which mammals are part. Around the Web
- The existence of a rhinolophoid-megabat clade has also been supported by other research teams (e.g., We flightless primates
- A clade is an ancestor species and all of its descendants A Disclaimer for Behe?
- Several workers have suggested that the entire alveolate clade is derived from a photosynthetic ancestor.
- The shaded and unshaded rectangles indicate the two inferred recombination blocks in each clade, designated numerically as blocks 1 and 2.
- The berries in the most derived clade (Olmstead et al.'s subfamily ‘Solanoideae’) are all morphologically similar, with two carpels, axile placentation and mostly lenticular seeds.
- The peoples of the Cyclades and Crete were seagoing folk, and their first trading voyages to the islands of the Aegean seem to have been for obsidian.
- In cladistics, the clade is a hypothetical construct based on experimental data. About 'What Darwin Got Wrong'
