How do you use Phylogeny in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like evolution, plus the exact meaning.
Phylogeny in a sentence
Phylogeny meaning
- The evolutionary history of groups of organisms, such as species or clades.
- A phylogenetic diagram.
- The historical development of a human social or racial group.
Synonyms of Phylogeny
Using Phylogeny
- The main meaning on this page is: The evolutionary history of groups of organisms, such as species or clades. | A phylogenetic diagram. | The historical development of a human social or racial group.
- Useful related words include: evolution, organic evolution, phylogenesis, organic process.
- In the example corpus, phylogeny often appears in combinations such as: angiosperm phylogeny, phylogeny of, the phylogeny.
Context around Phylogeny
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 10 start, 6 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Phylogeny
- In this selection, "phylogeny" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 20.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, angiosperm, molecular, evolution, group, website and pereskia stand out and add context to how "phylogeny" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include the angiosperm phylogeny group classification and 2005 molecular phylogeny based on. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "phylogeny" sits close to words such as abdicate, adapters and adores, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with phylogeny
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A method for deducing branching sequences in phylogeny. (8 words)
Figure 6: Geographic distribution, advertisement call sonograms and phylogeny. (9 words)
At: Angiosperm Phylogeny Website At: Missouri Botanical Garden Website. (9 words)
According to a phylogeny derived from nuclear sequences, the Eurasian golden jackal (Canis aureus) diverged from the wolf/coyote lineage 1.9 million years ago but the African golden wolf separated 1.3 million years ago. (36 words)
A consensus about how the flowering plants should be arranged has recently begun to emerge through the work of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG), which published an influential reclassification of the angiosperms in 1998. (34 words)
An example of a modern classification is the one published in 2009 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group for all living flowering plant families (the APG III system ). (27 words)
Example sentences (20)
Phylogeny and evolution Phylogeny Pereskia grandifolia is weakly succulent, possesses leaves, and is thought similar to the ancestor of all cacti.
Phylogeny The phylogeny shown below is based on the one published by Shuguang Jian and coauthors in 2008.
The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. 2003 An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG II.
The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. 2009 An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III.
Figure 6: Geographic distribution, advertisement call sonograms and phylogeny.
The researchers then constructed a phylogeny including all species in their system and quantified phylogenetic signal in phytochemical similarity.
A 2005 molecular phylogeny, based on rDNA analysis, suggests that salamanders and caecilians are more closely related to each other than they are to frogs.
According to a phylogeny derived from nuclear sequences, the Eurasian golden jackal (Canis aureus) diverged from the wolf/coyote lineage 1.9 million years ago but the African golden wolf separated 1.3 million years ago.
A comprehensive phylogeny by Goloboff et al. citation includes xenarthrans as a sister clade of Euarchontoglires within Boreoeutheria ( Laurasiatheria Euarchontoglires ).
A consensus about how the flowering plants should be arranged has recently begun to emerge through the work of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG), which published an influential reclassification of the angiosperms in 1998.
A list at the Angiosperm Phylogeny Website is frequently updated.
Although Stephen Jay Gould's 1977 book Ontogeny and Phylogeny helps to reassess Haeckelian embryology, it does not address the controversy over Haeckel's embryo drawings.
A method for deducing branching sequences in phylogeny.
A molecular phylogeny study in 2007 also supported this old idea, while its conclusions about other phyla agreed with those of several other analyses.
Andreas V. Martynov (1879–1938) recognized the close relationship between Lepidoptera and Trichoptera in his studies on phylogeny.
An example of a modern classification is the one published in 2009 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group for all living flowering plant families (the APG III system ).
APG IV classification Based on the 4th version of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification.
At: Angiosperm Phylogeny Website At: Missouri Botanical Garden Website.
Classification Phylogeny of Retroviruses Exogenous These are infectious RNA-containing viruses which are transmitted from human to human.
Classification varies according to the preferred phylogeny of the author and whether they use a stem-based or a node-based classification.
Common combinations with phylogeny
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- angiosperm phylogeny 10×
- phylogeny of 10×
- the phylogeny 9×
- phylogeny group 8×
- phylogeny and 6×
- and phylogeny 6×
- phylogeny the 4×
- molecular phylogeny 4×
- recapitulates phylogeny 4×
- phylogeny is 4×