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Results for “derived state”

Ichthyological terms, not general ones.

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  • apomorphy

    A derived character state of a clade; a feature novel to a species and its descendants.

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  • derived

    Used in phylogenetics in reference to a character or character state not present in the ancestral form of a species; apomorphic.

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  • plesiomorphy

    In cladistics, a character or trait shared by two or more taxonomic groups but derived from a remote or much earlier common ancestral form and therefore cannot be used to define a clade. Also known as an ancestral state and generally appears at the base level of a cladogram.

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