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Overview
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At molecular level
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Overview
- Succulent plant
- Euphorbia
- Astrophytum
- Evolution
- Last common ancestor
- Cladistic
- Homoplasy
- Recurrent evolution
- Insects Pterygota
- Birds Bird
- Pterosaurs
- Bats Bat
- Homologies Homology (biology)
- Wings
- Divergent evolution
- Parallel evolution
- Gliding frogs Flying frog
- Tree frog
- Plants Plant
- C4 photosynthesis
- Seed dispersal
- Fruits Fruit
- Carnivory Carnivorous plant
- Morphology Morphology (biology)
- Ecological niches Ecological niche
- Richard Owen
- Biochemistry
- Mechanisms Enzyme mechanism
- Active site
- Catalytic triad
Distinctions
At molecular level
- DNA
- Amino acid
- Translating Translation (biology)
- Structural genes Structural gene
- Proteins Protein
- Non-coding DNA
- Cis-regulatory elements Cis-regulatory element
- Positive selection
- Purifying selection Negative selection (natural selection)
In animals
- Fish
- Herrings Herring
- Marine mammals
- Dolphins
- Ichthyosaurs Ichthyosauria
- Of the Mesozoic Mesozoic era
- Phylliroe
- Travel at high speed Animal locomotion
- Drag Drag (physics)
- Earless seals Earless seal
- Eared seals
- Thylacine
- Canidae
- Vulpes vulpes
- Marsupial
- Placental Placental mammal
- Red fox
- Timber wolf Canis lupus
- Echolocation Animal echolocation
- Gymnotiform Gymnotiformes
- Mormyrid Mormyridae
- Passive electroreception Electroreception and electrogenesis
- Electrogenesis Electric fish
- Weakly electric fishes Weakly electric fish
- Camera eye
- Cephalopods Cephalopod eye
- Vertebrates Vertebrate
- Cnidarians Cnidaria
- Progressive refinement of camera eyes Evolution of the eye
- Blind spot Blind spot (vision)
In plants
- Perennial Perennial plant
- Annual Annual plant
- Asteraceae
- Brassicaceae
- Fabaceae
- Poaceae
- Arisen independently up to 40 times Evolutionary history of plants
- Angiosperms Angiosperm
- Monocots Monocot
- Maize Zea mays
- Sugar cane
- Dicots Dicot
- Chenopodiaceae
- Amaranthaceae
- Apples Apple
- Pomes Pome
- Carpels Carpel
- Receptacle Receptacle (botany)
- Hypanthium
- Tomato
- Pericarp
- Myrmecochory
- Cephalotus follicularis Cephalotus
- Nepenthes alata
- Sarracenia purpurea
- Enzymes
- Phosphatase Purple acid phosphatases
- Glycoside hydrolase Glycoside hydrolase family 19
- Glucanase
- RNAse RNASET2
Methods of inference
- Ancestral state reconstruction Ancestral reconstruction
- Natural selection
- Phylogenetic
- Brownian motion
- Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process
- A priori A priori knowledge
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Nodes188
Edges187
Triples74
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.010638
Components1
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Convergent evolution
Top relations
related to Primate phenotypes · 11
Convergent evolution → Africa, Ancestral, Convergent, East Asian, European, However, In, It, Lemurs, The, When
related to Fruits · 6
Convergent evolution → Apples, Fruits, It, Other, Seed, This
see also · 6
Convergent evolution → Breeding, Characteristic, Evolution, Misidentification, Study, The
has method · 5
Convergent evolution → Convergent, Pattern-based, Phylogenetic, Process-based, The
related to Parallel vs. convergent evolution · 5
Convergent evolution → For, Richard Dawkins, Some, The Blind Watchmaker, When
related to External links · 4
Convergent evolution → Convergent, Media, Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2
related to Insect mouthparts · 4
Convergent evolution → Convergent, Insect, The, These
related to Eyes · 3
Convergent evolution → As, One, Their
is a · 2
Convergent evolution → camera eye of cephalopods, independent evolution of similar features in species of different lineages
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Important terminology
evolution convergent similar different evolved species convergence independently structures two wings one groups parallel trait lineages many traits analogous bats
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Convergent evolution | is a | independent evolution of similar features in species of different lineages | 0.90 | text |
| Convergent evolution | is a | camera eye of cephalopods | 0.90 | text |
| the catalytic triad to evolve independently in separate enzyme superfamilies.In his 1989 book Wonderful Life | instance of | physical and chemical constraints on mechanisms have caused some active site arrangements | 0.80 | text |
| Stephen Jay Gould argued that if one could | instance of | physical and chemical constraints on mechanisms have caused some active site arrangements | 0.80 | text |
| herrings | instance of | In animalsBodyplansSwimming animals including fish | 0.80 | text |
| marine mammals such as dolphins | instance of | In animalsBodyplansSwimming animals including fish | 0.80 | text |
| and ichthyosaurs | instance of | In animalsBodyplansSwimming animals including fish | 0.80 | text |
| the red fox | instance of | converged with those of Canidae | 0.80 | text |
| Vulpes vulpes.Convergence of marsupial | instance of | converged with those of Canidae | 0.80 | text |
| placental mammalsRed fox skeletonSkulls of thylacine | instance of | converged with those of Canidae | 0.80 | text |
| octopuses | instance of | Similar intromittent organs have evolved in invertebrates | 0.80 | text |
| gastropods.FlightBirds | instance of | Similar intromittent organs have evolved in invertebrates | 0.80 | text |
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