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Taxa vs Outgroup - What's the difference?

taxa | outgroup |

As nouns the difference between taxa and outgroup

is that taxa is plural of lang=en while outgroup is in cladistics, all the taxa included in a study that do not belong to the ingroup that is of immediate interest.

taxa

English

Noun

(head)
  • *
    • Thirdly, I continue to attempt to interdigitate the taxa' in our flora with ' taxa of the remainder of the world.
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    outgroup

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (systematics) In cladistics, all the taxa included in a study that do not belong to the ingroup that is of immediate interest.
  • * 2009 January 15, Martin D. Brazeau, “The braincase and jaws of a Devonian 'acanthodian' and modern gnathostome origins”, Nature Volume 457 No. 7227, doi:10.1038/nature07436:?
    • A cladistic analysis of 45 ingroup and two outgroup taxa was performed on the basis of 134 characters.
  • (sociology) The group of people who do not belong to one's own social group.

    • Antonyms

    * (systematics) ingroup * (sociology) ingroup