Cladistic analysis (Topical Term)
- Cladism
- Cladistic method
- Cladistic taxonomy
- Cladistics
- Cladograms
- Phylogenetic systematics
- Phylogenetic taxonomy
- Taxonomy, Cladistic
- Taxonomy, Phylogenetic
- Broader heading: Biology Classification
- Broader heading: Branching processes
- Broader heading: Phylogeny
Acad. Pr. dict. sci. tech. (cladistics. Systematics. a method of classification in which phylogenetic hypotheses are the basis for classification and the recency of common ancestry is the sole criterion for grouping taxa. Evolution. a method of reconstructing phylogeny that is based on the identification of derived character states. Also, cladism, cladistic method, cladistic analysis)
Random House (cladism Biol. the cladistic method of classification. cladistics Biol. classification of organisms based on the branches of descendent lineages from a common ancestor)
McGraw-Hill dict. sci. tech. terms (cladism A theory of taxonomy by which organisms are grouped and ranked on the basis of the most recent phylogenetic branching point)
LC database, Feb. 10, 1998 (cladistic analysis, cladistic methodology, cladistic theory and methodology, cladistics, phylogenetic systematics)