monophyletic
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polyphyleticparaphyleticcladephylogenytaxonomycladisticsancestordescendantevolutionlineagespeciesgenusfamilyorderclassphylumkingdomdomainsynapomorphysymplesiomorphyhomologyanalogyconvergencedivergencebranchingnoderootstemcrowncladogramphylogenetic treesystematicsbiologyzoologybotanygeneticsDNAgenomemutationselectionadaptationspeciationextinctionfossilpaleontologymorphologyphenotypegenotypetraitcharacterapomorphyplesiomorphysister groupoutgroupingroupmonophylypolyphylyparaphylytaxonclassificationhierarchycommon ancestorinheritancephylogeneticsorganismbiotaevolutionary biology