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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.
The parameters used in the parametric bootstrap simulations were the phylogenetic tree generated from the aligned protein sequences and a residue substitution matrix.
The phylogenetic tree also indicates the close relativeness of both fishes.
The phylogenetic tree shows the genealogical relationships among nine eukaryotes.
In this simple phylogenetic tree, you can see how different viruses are related to each other.
Phylogenetic tree was constructed by MEGA5.2 phylogenetic tree analysis software.

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