Sentence examples for phylogeny from inspiring English sources
The word "phylogeny" is correct and usable in written English
It is a noun meaning the evolutionary development and history of a species or group of organisms. Example sentence: A comparative study of phylogeny can offer insight into the evolutionary history of a species.
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The evolutionary history of groups of organisms, such as species or clades.
It offers three completely different ways of moving through the exhibits on virtual display: phylogeny, geology or evolutionary theory.
Given the inferred phylogeny, the scientists estimated that flower diameter among the plants in the evolutionary lineage of R. arnoldii underwent about a 73-fold increase over about 46 million years, one of the most dramatic cases of evolutionary size increase reported for any plant or animal.
Although this "transformed" (or "pattern") cladism has been much criticized (not least because it seems to support creationism, inasmuch as it makes no claims about the causes of the nature and distribution of organisms), in fact is it very much in the tradition of the phylogeny tracers of the early 20th century.
The following classification derives from Zug, Vitt, and Caldwell (2001), who presented a composite phylogeny from several studies of different ancient amphibian groups.
The data and conclusions of phylogeny show clearly that the tree of life is the product of a historical process of evolution and that degrees of resemblance within and between groups correspond to degrees of relationship by descent from common ancestors.
An important assumption then in using molecules for phylogeny reconstruction is to select the appropriate gene for the age of the taxon under study.
With the development of the synthetic theory of evolution in the early 20th century, classification and phylogeny-tracing ceased to be pursued for their own sake, but the theoretical and philosophical underpinnings of classification, known as systematics, became a topic of great interest.
Fagales is now placed in the Rosid I group among the core eudicots in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group II (APG II) botanical classification system (see angiosperm).
Apiales belongs to the core asterid clade (organisms with a single common ancestor), or sympetalous lineage of flowering plants, in the euasterid II group of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group III (APG III) botanical classification system (see angiosperm).
DNA evidence has shown that many of the genera in those families form evolutionary lineages, leading the 2009 Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG III) to include them in a larger single family rather than maintain artificial lineages (ones that do not share a common ancestor).
Though formerly treated as its own family (Lennoaceae), Lennooideae has been recategorized as a subfamily by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group III (APG III) botanical classification system; its taxonomy remains contentious.
