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Please explain why homoplasy is particularly problematic in the construction of molecular phylogenies from DNA sequence data.


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Poisson Random Variable

A statistical measure that represents the probability of a given number of events occurring in a fixed interval of time or space.

Poisson Experiment

A Poisson experiment is a statistical experiment that classifies the experiment into a fixed number of trials, where each trial represents a specific time interval or region of space, and counts the number of times a particular event occurs.

Random Variable

represents a set of possible outcomes of a random phenomenon, quantitatively.

Random Variable

A variable whose values depend on outcomes of a random phenomenon.

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