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Polytomy vs Polychotomy - What's the difference?

polytomy | polychotomy |

As nouns the difference between polytomy and polychotomy

is that polytomy is (taxonomy) a section of a phylogeny in which the evolutionary relationships can not be fully resolved to dichotomies while polychotomy is polytomy.

polytomy

English

Noun

(wikipedia polytomy) (polytomies)
  • (taxonomy) A section of a phylogeny in which the evolutionary relationships can not be fully resolved to dichotomies

    • polychotomy

    English

    Noun

    (polychotomies)
  • polytomy

    • Related terms

    * polychotomous