Clade

∞ generated and posted on 2016.02.16 ∞

Group of related species that is both fully inclusive and excludes less-well related species.

A clade, in other words, is a monophyletic taxon, that is, one which contains both the single ancestral species and all species that descended from it.

Clades, along with species, constitute the basic units of taxonomic classification.


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