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dendrogram

American  
[den-druh-gram] / ˈdɛn drəˌgræm /

noun

Biology.
  1. a treelike diagram depicting evolutionary changes from ancestral to descendant forms, based on shared characteristics.


dendrogram British  
/ ˈdɛndrəʊˌɡræm /

noun

  1. any branching diagram, such as a cladogram, showing the interconnections between treelike organisms

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Etymology

Origin of dendrogram

dendro- + -gram 1

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Next, we were able to use hierarchical clustering on the dissimilarity to produce a dendrogram of sites and identified 6 co-editing modules with minModuleSize = 30.

From Nature Oct. 10, 2017

The dendrogram on top represents the distances between tissue samples.

From Nature Oct. 10, 2017

The dendrogram was drawn based on the distance metric computed by non-repetitive coding sites.

From Nature Oct. 10, 2017

More­ over, it is possible by straightforward statistical methods to construct from a set of SAB values for a group of or­ganisms a dendrogram, or tree, show­ing the relations among members of the group.

From Scientific American Jan. 1, 2013

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