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Clade vs Clads - What's the difference?

clade | clads |

As a noun clade

is a group of animals or other organisms derived from a common ancestor species.

As a verb clads is

third-person singular of clad.

clade

English

(wikipedia clade)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (biology, systematics) A group of animals or other organisms derived from a common ancestor species.
  • * 2001 , Ross H. Nehm, 6: Linking Evolutionary Pattern and Development Process in Marginellid Gastropods'', Alan H. Cheetham, Jeremy B. C. Jackson, Scott Lidgard, Frank K. McKinney (editors), ''Evolutionary Patterns: Growth, Form, and Tempo in the Fossil Record , page 166,
    • All three clades containing Prunum'' and “''Volvarina ” species contain morphological features that do not collectively appear in any other living or fossil marginellid species (see above).
  • * 2002 , , page 1092,
    • No one has ever tabulated the number or percentage of non-trending clades' within larger monophyletic groups. The concept of a non-trending '''clade''' — the higher level analog of a species in stasis — has never been explicitly formulated at all. If only one percent of ' clades exhibited sustained trends, we would still focus our attention upon this tiny minority in telling our favored version of the story of life's history.
  • * 2004 September 11, Bob Holmes, Linnean naming system faces challengers'', ''New Scientist , page 13,
    • A clade is made up of an ancestral species and all its descendants; think of it as that part of an evolutionary tree that would fall off with a single saw cut.
  • (genetics) A higher level grouping of a genetic haplogroup.

    • Derived terms

    * cladist * cladistic * cladistics * cladogenesis * cladogram

    See also

    * monophyletic * phylogenetic * taxon ** class, family, genus, kingdom, order, phylum, species * taxonomy * (cladistics)

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    clads

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (clad)

    • Anagrams

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    clad

    English

    Verb

  • To clothe.
    • The horse was clad with its best blanket.
  • * 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter VIII
    • But what interested me most was the slender figure of a dainty girl, clad only in a thin bit of muslin which scarce covered her knees--a bit of muslin torn and ragged about the lower hem.
  • To cover with insulation.
  • (clad)
  • (archaic) (clothe)

    • Anagrams

    * English terms with multiple etymologies English irregular verbs