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Noun Concept
Categories: Articles with short description, Paraphyletic groups, Phylogenetics
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paraphyly  paraphyletic  diphyletic  Paraphiletic  paraphyletic group
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Paraphyly is a taxonomic term describing a grouping that consists of the grouping's last common ancestor and most of its descendants, but excludes one or more subgroups. Wikipedia
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Paraphyly is a taxonomic term describing a grouping that consists of the grouping's last common ancestor and most of its descendants, but excludes one or more subgroups. Wikipedia
Condition where a taxon includes its common ancestor but excludes some descendants Wikidata
Said of a defined group constrained within a clade without including all descendants of the most common ancestor. OmegaWiki
In phylogenetics, a group of organisms that contains its most recent common ancestor but does not contain all the descendants of that ancestor. OmegaWiki
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