evolutionary distance

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evolutionary
adjective
uk
/ˌiː.vəˈluː.ʃən.ər.i/us
/ˌiː.vəˈluː.ʃən.er.i/
relating to the way in which living things develop over millions ...
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distance
noun
uk
/ˈdɪs.təns/us
/ˈdɪs.təns/
the amount of space between ...
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(Definition ofevolutionaryanddistancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Theevolutionarydistanceis represented by the scale bar.
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Theevolutionarydistancefrom the mole-rat families to other rodents is fairly large and roughly comparable across the common members of the family.
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Evolutionarydistanceis represented by the scale bar.
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The branch lengths are not proportional toevolutionarydistance.
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Linkage disequilibrium, genetic distance andevolutionarydistanceunder a general model of linked genes or a part of the genome.
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Regardless, theevolutionarydistancewithin some species is so large that cryptic speciation rather than (or in addition to) interbreeding seems to be the cause.
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The degree to which sequences in a query set differ is qualitatively related to the sequences'evolutionarydistancefrom one another.
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It results in a measure ofevolutionarydistancebetween taxa.
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These differences grow withevolutionarydistancebetween species.
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By comparing the homology between different species' genomes, it is possible to calculate theevolutionarydistancebetween them and when they may have diverged.
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Line length does not relate toevolutionarydistance.
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The match/mismatch ratio of the matrix sets the targetevolutionarydistance.
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Therefore, the relationships among the sequences were explored using evolutionary distances but without imposing a phylogenetic tree.
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The branch lengths are drawn proportional to the evolutionary distances.
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The lengths of the branches in this tree are not proportional to evolutionary distances.
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Molecular biologists, using phylogenetics, can compare protein amino acid or nucleotide sequence homology (i.e., similarity) to evaluate taxonomy and evolutionary distances among organisms, with limited statistical confidence.
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