Definition of Apomorphy. Meaning of Apomorphy. Synonyms of Apomorphy

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- In phylogenetics, an apomorphy (or derived trait) is a novel character or character state that has evolved from its ancestral form (or plesiomorphy)....
- trackways. Defining tetrapods based on one or two apomorphies can present a problem if these apomorphies were acquired by more than one lineage through convergent...
- distinguish the clade from other clades. Plesiomorphy, symplesiomorphy, apomorphy, and synapomorphy, all mean a trait shared between species because they...
- significantly reduced form. Averostra was named by Gregory S. Paul in 2002 as an apomorphy-based clade defined as the group including the Dromaeosauridae and other...
- defining clades are featured in phylogenetic nomenclature: node-, stem-, and apomorphy-based (see Phylogenetic nomenclature§Phylogenetic definitions of clade...
- some other descendant of that first rodent, perhaps the red squirrel. An apomorphy-based definition could read: "the first ancestor of A to possess trait...
- which have been p****ed down from innovations in a shared ancestor (apomorphies). Only derived characters, such as the spine-producing areoles of cacti...
- ("lower") and vascular ("higher") plants). The terms "plesiomorphy" and "apomorphy" are typically used in the technical literature: for example, when a plesiomorphic...
- eudicots, rather than non-monocot flowering plants in general. Monocot apomorphies (characteristics derived during radiation rather than inherited from...
- defined as an apomorphy-based taxon based on the presence of a "crocodile-normal" ankle joint (considered to be the defining apomorphy of the clade)....