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Clade vs Clane - What's the difference?

clade | clane |

As a noun clade

is (biology|systematics) a group of animals or other organisms derived from a common ancestor species.

As an adjective clane is

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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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    clane

    English

    Adjective

  • * {{quote-book, year=1857, author=Frank J. Webb, title=The Garies and Their Friends, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=One o' 'em, night before last, split Mikey Dolan's head clane open, and it's a small chance of his life he's got to comfort himself wid." " }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1919, author=Grace S. Richmond, title=The Brown Study, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=So it's clane she is, if she ain't got into no mischief the half hour." }}

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