Phylogeny Synonyms

fī-lŏjə-nē
(biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. evolution
  2. organic evolution
  3. phylogenesis

Words Related to Phylogeny

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. ontogeny
  2. phylogenetic
  3. phylogenetics
  4. monophyly
  5. metazoan
  6. cospeciation
  7. phylogenomics
  8. taxonomic
  9. macroevolution
  10. ssurdna
  11. systematics

Phylogeny Sentence Examples

  • The most striking general change has been against seeing in the facts of ontogeny any direct evidence as to phylogeny.

  • This makes the use of molecular data vital for reconstructing louse phylogeny at this taxonomic level.

  • Homogeny, in contrast, the " special homology " of Owen, is the supreme test of kinship or of hereditary relationship, and thus the basis of all sound reasoning in phylogeny.

  • Few or no extinct types are to be found in these older strata - there is nothing among the plants equivalent to the unmistakably extinct Ammonites, Belemnites, and a hundred other groups, and we only meet with constant variations in the same genus or family, these variations having seldom any obvious relation to phylogeny.

  • Evidence that the phylogeny inferred from protein and DNA sequence comparisons is correlated with the phylogeny inferred from evolutionary biology.

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