Welcome to Anagrammer Crossword Genius! Keep reading below to see if clade is an answer to any crossword puzzle or word game (Scrabble, Words With Friends etc). Scroll down to see all the info we have compiled on clade.
clade
Searching in Crosswords ...
The answer CLADE has 1 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
Searching in Word Games ...
The word CLADE is VALID in some board games. Check CLADE in word games in Scrabble, Words With Friends, see scores, anagrams etc.
Searching in Dictionaries ...
Definitions of clade in various dictionaries:
noun - a group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor
A group of organisms, such as a species, whose members share homologous features derived from a common ancestor.
noun - a group of biological taxa
Word Research / Anagrams and more ...
Keep reading for additional results and analysis below.
| Possible Crossword Clues |
|---|
| Group with common ancestry dressed alike finally |
| Last Seen in these Crosswords & Puzzles |
|---|
| Sep 3 2003 The Guardian - Cryptic crossword |
| Possible Dictionary Clues |
|---|
| A group of organisms, such as a species, whose members share homologous features derived from a common ancestor. |
| a group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor |
| a group of animals or plants consisting of a shared ancestor and everything that comes from it: |
| A group of organisms believed to comprise all the evolutionary descendants of a common ancestor. |
| Clade description |
|---|
|
A clade (from Ancient Greek: , klados, "branch"), also known as monophyletic group, is a group of organisms that consists of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants, and represents a single "branch" on the "tree of life".The common ancestor may be an individual, a population, a species (extinct or extant), and so on right up to a kingdom and further. Clades are nested, one in another, as each branch in turn splits into smaller branches. These splits reflect evolutionary history as populations diverged and evolved independently. Clades are termed monophyletic (Greek: "one clan") groups. * Over the last few decades, the cladistic approach has revolutionized biological classification and revealed surprising evolutionary relationships among organisms. Increasingly, taxonomists try to avoid naming taxa that are not clades; that is, taxa that are not monophyletic. Some of the relationships between organisms that the molecular biology arm of cladistics has revealed are that fungi are c |