sister group
pl: sister groups
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cladephylogenytaxonomyevolutioncommon ancestormonophylyparaphylypolyphylycladogramphylogenetic treebranchnodelineagespeciationdivergencehomologyanalogysynapomorphysymplesiomorphyautapomorphycharactertraitmorphologygeneticsDNAgenomesequencemutationselectionadaptationextinctionfossilpaleontologybiologyzoologybotanysystematicsclassificationgenusfamilyorderclassphylumkingdomdomainspeciestaxonoutgroupingroupbasalderivedapomorphyplesiomorphycladisticsparsimonylikelihoodtopologyrootstem