Obesity and diabetes. Both conditions raise your risk of liver cancer. Obesity can lead to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, which can lead to hepatocellular carcinoma. The higher risk from diabetes may be due to high insulin levels in people with diabetes or from liver damage caused by the disease.
monophyletic. adj. 1. (Biology) relating to or characterized by descent from a single ancestral group of animals or plants. 2. (Biology) (of animals or plants) of or belonging to a single stock. 1  Facebook. 2  Twitter.
The current consensus is that chordates are monophyletic, meaning that the Chordata include all and only the descendants of a single common ancestor, which is itself a chordate, and that craniates' nearest relatives are cephalochordates.or the leaf shape, see Cordate. Chordates (/ËkÉrdeÉªts/) are animals possessing a notochord, a hollow dorsal nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, an endostyle, and a post-anal tail for at least some period of their life cycles.