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Definition: Phylogeny |
PhylogenyNoun1. The sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "phylogeny" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1859. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | The relationships of groups of organisms as reflected by their evolutionary history. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
During the late 19th century, the theory of recapitulation, or Haeckel's biogenetic law, was widely accepted. This theory was often expressed as "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny", i.e. that the development of an organism exactly mirrors the evolutionary development of the species. The early version of this hypothesis has since been rejected as being oversimplified and misleading. However, modern biology recognizes numerous connections between ontogeny and phylogeny, explains them using evolutionary theory, and views them as supporting evidence for that theory. See the article on ontogeny and phylogeny.
See also: phylogenetic tree, evolutionary tree
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Phylogeny."
Synonyms: PhylogenySynonyms: evolution (n), phylogenesis (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Organization | Archegenesis. (production); antherozoid, bioplasm, biotaxy, chromosome, dysmeromorph; ecology, oecology; erythroblast, gametangium, gamete, germinal matter, invagination; isogamy, oogamy; karyaster; macrogamete, microgamete; metabolism, anabolism, catabolism; metaplasm, ontogeny, ovary, ovum, oxidation, phylogeny, polymorphism, protozoa, spermary, spermatozoon, trophoplasm, vacuole, vertebration, zoogloea, zygote. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Phylogeny |
| English words defined with "phylogeny": Cormophylogeny ♦ Gonochorism ♦ Morphophyly ♦ phylogenetically, Physiophyly. (references) |
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Health | Phylogenetic analysis of Old World and American hantaviruses indicates that the relationship among hantaviruses corresponds with the phylogeny of their rodent hosts. (references) | |
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| "Phylogeny" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Phylogeny" is used about 48 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 48 | 49,194 |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
phylogeny | 27 |
ontogeny phylogeny recapitulates | 12 |
comparative phylogeny | 4 |
comparative compare invertebrate phylogeny phylum that | 4 |
invertebrate phylogeny | 3 |
fungi phylogeny | 2 |
phylogeny vertebrate | 2 |
plant phylogeny | 2 |
amphibian phylogeny | 2 |
human phylogeny | 2 |
bird phylogeny | 2 |
comparative invertebrate phylogeny | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "phylogeny"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نسالة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Stammesgeschichte. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φιλετική ιστορία, φιλογένεια (patriotism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | törzsfejlõdés (phylogenesis), fejlõdéstörténet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ylogenyphay filogenie (phylogenesis). (various references) filogenia. (various references) filogeni. (various references) філогенія, філогенетика. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | phylon. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Phylogeny" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: phelogeny, phenogeny, philogeny, philogyny, Philomene, phylogony, phylogyny. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "phylogeny" (pronounced fīlÄ"junē) |
| 5 | -Ä" j u n ē | homogeny, ontogeny, progeny. |
| 4 | -j u n ē | aborigine, misogyny, polygyny. |
| 3 | -u n ē | accompany, agony, balcony, botany, cacophony, colony, company, destiny, disharmony, ebony, Epiphany, felony, gluttony, harmony, hegemony, hominy, intercompany, intracompany, irony, larceny, litany, mahogany, monotony, mutiny, neoteny, paleobotany, Peony, polyphony, Saxony, scrutiny, simony, Symphony, Tiffany, tyranny. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-h-l-n-o-p-y-y" | |
-3 letters: holpen, openly, phenol, phenyl, phoney, phylon, poleyn. | |
-4 letters: glyph, holey, honey, hoyle, longe, pelon, pengo, peony, phone, phony, phyle, pogey, pylon. | |
-5 letters: enol, glen, gley, glop, gone, helo, help, hole, holp, holy, hone, hong, hope, hype, hypo, leno, loge, logy, lone, long, lope, noel, nope, ogle, only, open, peon, phon, ploy, pogy, pole. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 68 79 6C 6F 67 65 6E 79 |
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