The _____ Approach to Inferring Relationships Among Species Selects the Phylogeny

question 21

Multiple Choice

The _____ approach to inferring relationships among species selects the phylogeny that minimizes the number of evolutionary changes.

• A) maximum likelihood
• B) Bayesian
• C) maximum parsimony
• D) distance
• E) rooted tree

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