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Polyphyletic
Meaning
Adj
●
In Taxonomy:
Having
multiple
ancestral
sources
;
referring
to a
taxon
that does not
contain
the most
recent
common ancestor
of its members.
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Related
Monophyletic
Paraphyletic
Prokaryotes
Eukaryotes
Eukaryotic
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