Sister group facts for kids
A sister group or sister taxon is a term used to describe the closest relatives of an organism (or other taxon) in a phylogenetic tree. It is a term in cladistics.
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The sister group of organism A is B. The sister group of the clade B+A, is C.
Images for kids
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A Dinosauria phylogeny including two extant taxa: birds (Theropoda) and crocodiles (Suchia).
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See also
In Spanish: Grupo hermano para niños
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