Definition of Apomorphy. Meaning of Apomorphy. Synonyms of Apomorphy

Here you will find one or more explanations in English for the word Apomorphy. Also in the bottom left of the page several parts of wikipedia pages related to the word Apomorphy and, of course, Apomorphy synonyms and on the right images related to the word Apomorphy.

Definition of Apomorphy

No result for Apomorphy. Showing similar results...

Meaning of Apomorphy from wikipedia

- In phylogenetics, an apomorphy (or derived trait) is a novel character or character state that has evolved from its ancestral form (or plesiomorphy)....
- trackways. Defining tetrapods based on one or two apomorphies can present a problem if these apomorphies were acquired by more than one lineage through convergent...
- magazine on urbanism Dérive, a psychogeographical concept Derived trait, or apomorphy All pages with titles containing Derive Derivation (disambiguation) Derivative...
- unambiguous. Possible exceptions occur for apomorphy-based definitions, when optimization of the defining apomorphy is ambiguous. Phylogenetic nomenclature...
- the group based on the characteristics of the hand and wrist alone (an apomorphy-based definition), and included the long, thin fingers, bowed, wing-like...
- species, family or in general any clade). It can therefore be considered an apomorphy in relation to a single taxon. The word autapomorphy, introduced in 1950...
- distinguish the clade from other clades. Plesiomorphy, symplesiomorphy, apomorphy, and synapomorphy, all mean a trait shared between species because they...
- defining clades are featured in phylogenetic nomenclature: node-, stem-, and apomorphy-based (see Phylogenetic nomenclature§Phylogenetic definitions of clade...
- which have been p****ed down from innovations in a shared ancestor (apomorphies). Only derived characters, such as the spine-producing areoles of cacti...
- defined as an apomorphy-based taxon based on the presence of a "crocodile-normal" ankle joint (considered to be the defining apomorphy of the clade)....