Sentence example with the word 'polyphyletic'

polyphyletic

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When two organs can be traced along the same line of descent to one primitive form, that is when they are found to be mono phyletic, their homology is complete; when, however, they are traceable to two primitive forms, though these forms belong to the same morphological series, they are polyphyletic and therefore only incompletely homologous.   [Please select]

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Polyphyletic: derived or descended from several stems or sources.   [Please select]

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Herre (1935), for instance, concludes "on anatomical, biological and paleontological grounds" that the orders of Urodela, Anura, Apoda and Stegocephali were all independently evolved from fish, but beyond citing the opinions of a number of other authors he does not present tangible evidence for this extreme polyphyletic interpretation.   [Please select]

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