To Apply the Principle of Maximum Parsimony to Construction of a Phylogenetic

question 27

Multiple Choice

To apply the principle of maximum parsimony to construction of a phylogenetic tree, ________.

• A) choose the tree that assumes all evolutionary changes are equally probable
• B) choose the tree in which the branch points are based on as many shared derived characters as possible
• C) choose the tree that represents the fewest evolutionary changes, either in DNA sequences or morphology
• D) choose the tree with the fewest branch points

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