| Answer | Crossword Clue |
|---|---|
| cladism | the cladistic method of classification |
| cladistics | A method of classification of animals and plants according to the proportion of measurable characteristics that they have in common. It is assumed that the higher the proportion of characteristics that two organisms share, the more recently they diverged from a common ancestor |
| cladogram | a branching diagrammatic tree used in cladistic classification to illustrate phylogenetic relationships |
| cladistically | CLADISTIC, relating to cladism, a method of taxonomy |
| SYST | Method of classification: Abbr. |
