What is phylogenetics?
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Phylogenetics is the study of the evolutionary history and relationship among individuals or group of organisms.
Explanation:
These relationships are discoverd through phylogenetic inference methods that evaluate observed heritable traits. The result of these analyses is a phylogenetic tree - a diagrammatic hypothesis about the history of the evolutionary relationship of a group of organism.
A phylogenetic tree or evolutionary tree is a branching diagram or 'tree' , showing the inferred evolutionary relationships among various biological species.
The taxa joined together in the tree are implied to have descended from a common ancestor.
The tips of a phylogenetic tree can be living organisms or fossils and the end or the present in an evolutionary lineage. Phylogenetic analyses have become central to understanding biodiversity, evolution , ecology and genome.
