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state that has
evolved from its
ancestral form (or plesiomorphy). A
synapomorphy is an
apomorphy shared by two or more taxa and is
therefore hypothesized...
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clade from
other clades. Plesiomorphy, symplesiomorphy, apomorphy, and
synapomorphy, all mean a
trait shared between species because they
share an ancestral...
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Relative apparent synapomorphy analysis, or RASA, is a
method that aims to
determine whether a
given character is
shared between taxa due to
shared ancestry...
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conclusions on what
synapomorphies characterize Suchia. Nevertheless, they did
agree on one
trait that
likely qualified as a
synapomorphy of Suchia: a calcaneal...
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distinctive physical characteristics (
synapomorphies) that
distinguish them from
other taxa.
These five
synapomorphies are a notochord, a
hollow dorsal nerve...
- Ferungulata, in
addition to
their genetic similarities,
share common synapomorphy in the
lumbar vertebrae (the S-shaped postzygapophysis). In
extant ferungulate...
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joints evolved much
earlier in the
history of insects:
dicondyly is a
synapomorphy of bristletails,
silverfish and
winged insects".
Systematic Entomology...
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wings is a
synapomorphy for fleas.
Patterns such as
these lead many
cladists to
consider the
concept of
homology and the
concept of
synapomorphy to be equivalent...
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character states are "ancestral" (plesiomorphies) and
which are
derived (
synapomorphies),
because only
synapomorphic character states provide evidence of grouping...
- symplesiomorphy, that is, a
shared primitive trait; a
shared derived trait is a
synapomorphy. The
amount of
variation of
characters can ****ist in
depicting greater...
