What is the main idea of maximum parsimony in phylogenetic
tree construction? What are the drawbacks?

Answer Posted / aakanksha

principle behind this is that it follows the principle of
lesser changes.It follows that in characters means in
sequences minimum number of changes are taken place in
evolution.It has many drawbacks like it could not count for
those changes which are very difficult

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