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Phylogenetic Trees Lab Report

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The purpose of phylogenetic trees are to show the evolutionary history and relationships of different species. The two ways that phylogenetic trees can be constricted by are molecular-based and morphological-based. Molecular-based trees compare whole genome sequences of species (Lundmark 2003). Morphological trees look at the physical phenotypic appearances of different species as a way to separate them (Karaguzel 2009). On account of this, we hypothesized that the molecular-based phylogenetic tree would produce more congruent and reliable results than the morphological-based tree. Within this lab, we created phylogenetic trees to compare different leaves based off of observed character traits of the species. We achieved this by using two computer

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