polyphyletic in English

adjective
1
(of a group of organisms) derived from more than one common evolutionary ancestor or ancestral group and therefore not suitable for placing in the same taxon.
The present study, as well as previous molecular studies, suggest that the oegopsid squids represent a polyphyletic group with uncertain phylogenetic affinities.

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1. However, phylogenetic analyses of nuclear and chloroplast genes, obtained using both traditional and high-throughput sequencing, indicate that Bartsia so circumscribed is polyphyletic (S

2. Based on both analyses, Buteo is polyphyletic with Leucopternis, Geranoaetus melanoleucus, and ParaButeo unicinctus, suggesting the need to reassess classification of these genera

3. These organisms do not share a common ancestor and hence, are not related to each other (polyphyletic).” Multicellular examples of Algae include the giant kelp and brown Algae.

4. The phylogeny inferred from rDNA sequences is consistent with molgulid systematics according to adult morphology and supports the polyphyletic origin of Anural development in ascidians.

5. The podotreme crabs, best recognised by the possession of gonopores on the coxae of the pereopods, have variously been regarded as mono-, para- or polyphyletic, or even as non-Brachyuran.

6. Algae (; singular Alga ) is an informal term for a large, diverse group of photosynthetic eukaryotic organisms that are not necessarily closely related, and is thus polyphyletic

7. Definition of Alga : a plant or plantlike organism of any of several phyla, divisions, or classes of chiefly aquatic usually chlorophyll-containing nonvascular organisms of polyphyletic origin that usually include the green, yellow-green, brown, and red Algae in the eukaryotes and especially formerly the cyanobacteria in the prokaryotes

8. Alga definition is - a plant or plantlike organism of any of several phyla, divisions, or classes of chiefly aquatic usually chlorophyll-containing nonvascular organisms of polyphyletic origin that usually include the green, yellow-green, brown, and red Algae in the eukaryotes and especially formerly the cyanobacteria in the prokaryotes.