How to use in-sentence of “monophyletic”:
– That means they are a monophyletic group.
– Modern molecular biology has shown by sequence analysis that slime moulds are not a monophyletic group.
– Sequence analysis shows Amoebozoa is a monophyletic clade.
– Tree ferns: monophyletic groups and their relationships as revealed by four protein-coding plastid loci.” Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution” 39: 830-845.
– It is a monophyletic clade, one of two in the Cnidaria.
– They share a common ancestor and are a monophyletic group.
– The Metriacanthosauridae is a monophyletic group.

Example sentences of “monophyletic”:
- This could be explained by various possibilities, among them the existence of common ancestral haplotypes among the species or the need for a revised phylogenetic tree, with revised placement into true monophyletic genera that better reflect the true ancestry.
- The belemnites are a monophyletic group of superorder status, called the Belemnoidea.
- The Squamata are definitely a monophyletic group: it is a sister group to the Tuatara.
– This could be explained by various possibilities, among them the existence of common ancestral haplotypes among the species or the need for a revised phylogenetic tree, with revised placement into true monophyletic genera that better reflect the true ancestry.
– The belemnites are a monophyletic group of superorder status, called the Belemnoidea.
– The Squamata are definitely a monophyletic group: it is a sister group to the Tuatara.
– Studies show they are not a monophyletic group.
– It is agreed to be a good monophyletic clade, even though some of the details may need to be adjusted.
– The protists are paraphyletic, so needed to be split into monophyletic clades.
– These two points are the main evidence for monophyletic origin.
– The Squamates are definitely a monophyletic group; they are a sister group to the Tuatara.
– In cladistics, a group that includes only some of the descendants of the ancestral species is not monophyletic but paraphyletic.
– In evolutionary biology, the term monophyletic refers to a group of organisms descended from its most recent common ancestor.
– This hypothesis that these form a monophyletic group has been long debated based on morphological evidence, although recent morphological studies strongly support monophyly of Glires.
– In cladistics, by contrast, a monophyletic group is a group consisting of all the inferred descendants of an ancestral species.
– Most molecular biological evidence supports the view that bats form a single or monophyletic group.
– Paraneoptera is a monophyletic Order superorder of insects.
– Earlier angiosperm classifications were not based on monophyletic groups.
– There is a monophyletic clade within the Squamata.
– Since biologists by and large tend to prefer monophyletic groups, in this case, they would likely either split the genus or broaden it to include the additional forms.
– By definition, any homologous trait defines a clade–a monophyletic taxon in which all the members have the trait ; and all non-members lack it.
– The APG II system includes it in the family Asparagaceae in the order Asparagales in the monocots clade but allows for the optional segregation of Hesperocallidaceae as a monophyletic family when several other families are likewise segregated.
– Bitterns form a monophyletic subfamily of the herons, the Botaurinae.
