- In phylogenetics, a
plesiomorphy ("near form") and
symplesiomorphy are
synonyms for an
ancestral character shared by all
members of a clade,
which does...
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character or
character state that has
evolved from its
ancestral form (or
plesiomorphy). A
synapomorphy is an
apomorphy shared by two or more taxa and is therefore...
- used to
identify shared or
distinct character states among groups: A
plesiomorphy ("close form") or
ancestral state is a
character state that a
taxon has...
- in
different groups (homoplasies) or
those left over from
ancestors (
plesiomorphies) – and
derived characters,
which have been p****ed down from innovations...
- in non-vascular ("lower") and
vascular ("higher") plants). The
terms "
plesiomorphy" and "apomorphy" are
typically used in the
technical literature: for...
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recognized to have been
previously grouped with
opossums on the
basis of
plesiomorphies and are now
considered to
represent older branches of
Metatheria only...
- morphosyntactic, morphosyntax, paramorph, peramorphism, peramorphosis, perimorph,
plesiomorphy, polymorphic, polymorphism, pseudomorph, synapomorphy, teleomorph, teleomorphic...
- "ancestral trait" is
often used
interchangeably with the more
technical term
plesiomorphy. anti****tion A
phenomenon by
which the
symptoms of a
genetic disorder...
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shared between Hallucigenia and
onychophorans represent panarthropod plesiomorphy.
Hallucigenia also
exhibits certain characters inherited from the ancestral...
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through a
measure of
overall similarity,
making no
distinction between plesiomorphies (shared
ancestral traits) and
apomorphies (derived traits). From the...
