Plesiomorphic vs Null - What's the difference?
plesiomorphic | null |
(cladistics) Sharing a character state with an ancestral clade; primitive.
*2000 , Christine A. Nalepa and Claudio Bandi,"Paedomorphosis and Termite Evolution," in Termites: Evolution, Sociality, Symbioses, Ecology [http://books.google.com/books?id=Q_-KUDz2-sYC], ISBN 0792363612, page 68:
*:[T]he cockroach Polyphaga may represent a condition more plesiomorphic than in other Dictyoptera, but it could as well be paedomorphic, and therefore more derived than in other Dictyoptera [72].
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As an adjective plesiomorphic
is (cladistics) sharing a character state with an ancestral clade; primitive.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.plesiomorphic
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Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
*plesiomorphicallySynonyms
*primitive, basalnull
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Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.