phenogram

phe·no·gram

[fee-nuh-gram]
noun Biology.
a diagram depicting taxonomic relationships among organisms based on overall similarity of many characteristics without regard to evolutionary history or assumed significance of specific characters: usually generated by computer.


Origin:
pheno- + -gram1

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