Four of the Statements Are True of Cladistics

question 18

Multiple Choice

Four of the statements are true of cladistics.Which statement is false?  

• A) It involves making hypotheses about the evolutionary relationship between clades.
• B) It is a precise science.
• C) It can lead to the creation of a cladogram.
• D) It may involve parsimony analysis.
• E) It may use outgroups to "root" the tree.

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