🔤 Monophylletic ✨
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URDU
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Roman Urdu:
Yak Nasli, Yak Ajdadi
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ENGLISH
📚adjective
monophylletic
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PRONUNCIATION
Standard: ˌmɒnəfaɪˈlɛtɪk
Phonetic: mon-oh-fy-LET-ik
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DEFINITION
Descending From A Single Ancestral Taxon; Denoting A Group Of Organisms That Forms A Clade, Meaning That It Consists Of A Single Common Ancestor And All Its Descendants.
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES
Birds and reptiles together form a monophylletic group, the sauropsids.
In cladistics, a monophylletic group includes all descendants of a common ancestor.
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SYNONYMS
holophyletic uniphyletic
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ANTONYMS
paraphyletic polyphyletic
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