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Sister taxa
The most closely related groups of organisms in a phylogeny.


Read more about this term in the Online Textbook:
Human Evolution: What Does DNA Tell Us About Our Position Among the Apes?
Evolution and Phylogenetics: Cladistics and Classification

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Homologous (homology)
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