phylogeny

How To Use phylogeny In A Sentence

• The relationships between hagfishes, lampreys, and jawed vertebrates are one of the still-unresolved problems in craniate phylogeny.
• However, the examination of specific cases may still yield valuable insight into the relationship between phylogeny, ontogeny and ecology.
• Phylogeny, cytology, ethnobotany, conservation biology, and infraspecific taxa are all reasons why a revision of the North American species of Apios was needed.
• The simplest model assumes the same ratio for all branches in a phylogeny.
• Not only is phylogeny important for understanding paleontology, but paleontology in turn contributes to phylogeny.
• Recapitulating phylogeny as ontogeny, Jakobson states that the phatic is "the first verbal function acquired by infants; they are prone to communicate before being able to send or receive informative communication" (356). 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' as an Ambient Poem; a Study of a Dialectical Image; with Some Remarks on Coleridge and Wordsworth
• In both cases, alterations of developmental timing produce parallels between ontogeny and phylogeny.
• Cowpea rhizobia, peanut rhizobia and mungbean rhizobia all belong to "Vigna" rhizobia phylogenetically. However the phylogeny of these rhizobia was poorly understood.
• The phylogeny of the eight monkeys is relatively well established, except for the interrelationships of the owl monkey, squirrel monkey, and tamarin.
• So these small horns may be more relevant to the study of dinosaur ontogeny than phylogeny (evolution).