English Explanatory Dictionary

cladogenesis

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An evolutionary splitting event in which each branch and its smaller branches forms a clade.

Word forms

cladogenesis cladogeneses

Etymology

From clado- + -genesis.

Related words

anacladogenesis cladogenic

Derived words

cocladogenesis
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