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What is a phylogenetic tree?

What is a phylogenetic tree? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (biology) A branching diagram illustrating evolutionary relationships among biological organisms or other entities known to share a common ancestor.
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However, many viruses readily recombine, which implies that no single phylogenetic tree describes the genealogy of the sampled sequences.
In this simple phylogenetic tree, you can see how different viruses are related to each other.
When constructing a phylogenetic tree for HIV forensic analysis, it is vital that the tree is as unbiased as possible.
The examination of these and other measures to detect changes of gene function along branches of a phylogenetic tree will become increasingly important in the postgenomic era.
Typically, the pattern of differences is represented as a phylogenetic tree, or genealogy-the Tree of Life.
The phylogenetic tree shows the genealogical relationships among nine eukaryotes.

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