Monophyletic
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Derived from a single ancestral taxon and forming a group that includes all the descendants of that ancestral taxon.

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the red taxa t3, t4, t5, and t6 form a monophyletic group; the bullets refer to shared character states. Note that the black taxa t1 and t2 form a paraphyletic group.