I don’t think I was ever taught about clades and I am confused by them. Are they there to challenge the hierarchy of Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, etc. etc. or are they something else? Have they replaced any of those D.,K.,P., C., O., F., G., S.? Should I italicize clades?
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A clade is a branch of an evolutionary tree. Modern classification generally tries to make named groups in a traditional hierarchy (families, etc) correspond to a single clade. However not every clade has to be named or assigned to a group in the formal taxonomic hierarchy.
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