In Their Studies Testing the Accuracy of Phylogenetic Methods, Hillis

question 190

Multiple Choice

In their studies testing the accuracy of phylogenetic methods, Hillis and colleagues split the culture virus into two separate lineages.Why did they do this?

• A) To obtain an ingroup and an outgroup
• B) To increase the amount of homoplasy
• C) To decrease the amount of homoplasy
• D) To increase the accuracy of the results
• E) To enable the use of maximum likelihood analysis

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