Holophyletic
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The bees have long appeared to constitute a holophyletic unit.
Cladistics aims to identify holophyletic groups (clades) comprising all the descendants of a common ancestor.
McCafferty and Edmunds (1979) divided all mayflies into Pannota and Schistonota, regarding Pannota to be holophyletic, and Schistonota to be paraphyletic.
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