What is cladistics in biology?

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This cladistic biology helps in tracing the common distant ancestors.

Explanation:

  1. The term cladistics has derived from Greek word klados, means the branch.
  2. It is an approach of biological classification, in which organisms are categorized on the basis of common characters.
  3. This type of classification helps in tracing the common distant ancestors.

Cladistics means classification on the basis of ancestral history.

Explanation:

Cladistics means branch. It an approach of the classification of organisms on the basis of ancestral relation.