Monday, January 13, 2014

SI 1.13.14

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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