Draw a phylogenetic tree from the following character matrix:
Characters
Taxa 1 2 3 4 5 6
O 0 0 0 1 0 0
A 0 0 1 1 1 1
B 0 1 0 1 1 1
C 0 0 0 1 1 0
D 0 0 1 1 1 1
E 1 0 0 1 1 0
1. What do we use to group things together?
2. What is a monophyletic group?
3. What is an example of a paraphyletic group?
4. Why do paraphyletic groups get confused as monophyletic?
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