monophyletic

Examples of monophyletic in the following topics:

• Building Phylogenetic Trees

  • Consequently, all of these organisms also have amniotic eggs and make a single clade, also called a monophyletic group.
  • The important factor is that all of the organisms in the clade or monophyletic group stem from a single point on the tree.
  • This can be remembered because monophyletic breaks down into "mono," meaning one, and "phyletic," meaning evolutionary relationship.

• Glomeromycota

  • This analysis shows that all glomeromycetes probably descended from a common ancestor 462 and 353 million years ago, making them a monophyletic lineage.

• Streptophytes and Reproduction of Green Algae

  • Consequently, land plants (embryophytes) and closely-related green algae (Charophyta) are now part of a new monophyletic group called Streptophyta.

• Early Plant Life

  • Current evolutionary thought holds that all plants, green algae as well as land dwellers, are monophyletic; that is, they are descendants of a single common ancestor.

• Characteristics of Gymnosperms

  • As will be discussed in subsequent sections, the various environmental adaptations gymnosperms have represent a step on the path to the most successful (diversity-wise) clade (monophyletic branch).

• Diversity of Angiosperms

  • Modern angiosperms appear to be a monophyletic group, which means that they originated from a single ancestor.

• Molecular Analyses and Modern Phylogenetic Trees

  • Furthermore, by assigning a constant mutation rate to a sequence and performing a sequence alignment, it is possible to calculate the approximate time when the sequence of interest diverged into monophyletic groups.