The _____ Approach to Inferring Relationships Among Species Selects the Phylogeny

question 44

Multiple Choice

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

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

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