CLADISTICS
cladistics, cladistic analysis
(noun) a taxonomic system of classifying species based on the branching patterns of cladograms that are built to infer phylogenetic relations
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
cladistics (uncountable)
(systematics) An approach to biological systematics in which organisms are grouped based upon synapomorphies (shared derived characteristics) only, and not upon symplesiomorphies (shared ancestral characteristics).
Source: Wiktionary
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PARASITISM
(noun) the relation between two different kinds of organisms in which one receives benefits from the other by causing damage to it (usually not fatal damage)
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