Sentence examples for artificial group from inspiring English sources

Because of the presence of catkins, or aments, Fagales, plus a number of unrelated families, were previously classified in an artificial group called Amentiferae.

Moreover, ties between members of a large, possibly artificial group, are plausibly less influential than those binding members of a simple group.

Using overall similarity often causes organisms with less derived features to be artificially lumped together based on general similarities (i.e., all single-celled eukaryotes placed in the artificial group "Protista" even though some of them are more related to multicellular plants, animals, or fungi, respectively).

Although the traditional classification is provisionally accepted, newer evidence suggests the Ascidiacea are an artificial group of paraphyletic status.

Originally, microsporidia were placed within an artificial group, the schizomycetes (reviewed in [7]).

Our analyses provided strong supports at nodes, indicating that Athyma is an artificial group.

"It also means that there is an artificial grouping of sales just below each threshold.

It has long been realized, however, that Rhamphorhynchoidea is an artificial grouping of primitive forms, as some members are actually more closely related to the other major group of pterosaurs, the Pterodactyloidea (see pterodactyl).

Knowing more about how such evolution occurs, she said, could be important in understanding the natural microbial communities in the human gut and the artificial groups of microbes used in wastewater treatment.

Nevertheless, even if synthetic methods to verify the quality of clusters have been proposed [56], the question of whether such artificial groups capture some notion of community perceived by the users remains open.

Now considered as an artificial grouping, it was defined to include dinosaur taxa now considered to be polacanthids, a pachycephalosaur and Acanthopholis, a genus that is widely considered to be dubious.