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(rare) Synonym of heterotroph
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Alternative form of autapomorph [(cladistics) An organism that possesses a derived trait that is unique to a particular taxon.]
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The idea that individual characteristics are determined at conception by those of the parents
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Alternative spelling of biophor [(obsolete, genetics) A supposed supramolecular unit of heredity]
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(biology) Any series of evolutionary changes in a particular inherited characteristic
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(biology) The identification of different bacteria types based on reaction to biochemical tests.
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(biology) A strain of microorganisms that is physiologically and/or biochemically differentiable from others
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Relating to a chemotype
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(taxonomy) A herbarium specimen made from plants vegetatively propagated from (and thus clones of) the same plant from which a type specimen was made
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Of or pertaining to a clonotype
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A visual representation of a phylogenetic network composed of superimposed trees
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(biology) Either of a group of related species that are able to form (often fertile) hybrids
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Relating to a cofunction or to cofunctionality
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Pertaining to two phenetic systems or groupings
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Alternative form of ecotypic [Of or pertaining to an ecotype]
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(ecology) A measure of the interaction of a genotype and its environment
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Alternative form of endophenotypic [Pertaining to endophenotypes.]
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Of or pertaining to an epimer
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Relating to genecology.
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A scientist or engineer whose speciality is genetic engineering.
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Alternative form of haplotypic [Pertaining to a haplotype.]
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Of or relating to Emil Hans Willi Hennig (1913–1976), German biologist who is considered the founder of phylogenetic systematics.
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(biology) A specimen identified as belonging to a certain taxon by an authority who compared it directly with a primary type specimen (usually the holotype).
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Relating to isoallotypes
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Relating to a mesotype
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Relating to metasynthesis
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(taxonomy) The taxonomy of an entire microbiota
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(biology) The identification of the totality of the morphological features of species
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(biology) A population or organisms that have a common morphology
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(biology) A graphical representation of all the morphologies an organism could or does have, each point of which represents an individual shape.
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(biology) Any of a group of different types of individuals of the same species in a population; a morph.
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(genetics) A patristic cladogram
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(systematics) Support for the system of phenetics.
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(systematics) A form of numerical systematics in which organisms are grouped based upon the total or relative number of shared characteristics.
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Of, or relating to a phenotype.
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(biology) phylogenic classification
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(biology) phylogenic classifier
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A phylogenetic dendrogram
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(genetics) A phylogenetic tree that has branch spans proportional to the amount of character change.
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(genetics) A phylogenetic grouping
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The application of computing methods to phylogenetics
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The phylogenetic analysis of nongenetic aspects of evolution.
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Relating to phylogenetic metrics
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The smallest unit appropriate for phylogenetic analysis (the unit product of natural selection and descent).
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(biology) The coexistence, in the same locality, of two or more distinct forms independent of sex, not connected by intermediate gradations, but produced from common parents.
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(biology, evolutionary theory) Any (hypothesised) primordial organism in which the relationship between genotype and phenotype was still evolving.
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(genetics) A stratocladistic diagram
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(cladistics) A derived trait that is shared by two or more taxa of shared ancestry.
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(genetics) The suitability of an evolutionary tree for representing the structure of a population; the degree to which a population structure can be accurately described as a tree of descent, with different branches evolving independently after they split.
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