Of or pertaining to a single family or stock, or to development from a single common parent form; -- opposed to polyphyletic; as, monophyletic origin.
Sharing a common ancestor.
Term applied to a group of organisms which includes the most recent common ancestor of all of its members and all of the descendants of that most recent common ancestor. A monophyletic group is called a clade.
(mon´ oh fih leht´ ik) [Gk. monos: single + phylon: tribe] • Being descended from a single ancestral stock.
A set consisting of an ancestor and all of its descendants; usually used for groups the members of which share a more recent common ancestor with one another than with any non-members, though monophyletic groups of organisms within sexually reproducing species/populations may not have this property.
Group of organisms with a common ancestor.
A taxon (or taxa) derived from a single ancestral line
A group of taxa that contains an ancestor and all of its descendants.
Having a unique common ancestor. A monophyletic taxonomic group traces it origins to a single ancestral species and includes that species and all species descended from it. This contrasts with a paraphyletic group, which includes a common ancestor but not all of its descendents, and a polyphyletic group, which does not include the group's most recent common ancestor.
A monophyletic group, is a group recognised by the possession of one or more homologues; in other words, it is a clade. In an evolutionary context, it is any group that consists of species descended from a single common ancestor, and includes all the most recent common ancestors of all its members.
A group of organisms that share a single common ancestor
( mon-oh-fy- leh-tik) Pertaining to a taxon derived from a single ancestral species that gave rise to no species in any other taxa.
derived from a single ancestral line. cf. polyphyletic.
clade that comprises an ancestral taxon and all of its descendants, and no other taxa.
of one stem ( Greek) Believed to have a common ancestry.
A group composed if a real or hypothetical common ancestor and all of its descendants
indicates that all the group in the taxon share a single common ancester (that is they have the same phylogeny)
A monophyletic group consists of all organisms that share a particular common ancestor (and therefore have similar features). The members of a monophyletic group are more closely related to one other than they are to any organism outside the group. A monophyletic group is also called a clade. An example of a monophyletic group is mammals.
