Bioinformatics Practice Test Questions: Phylogenetic Tree Construction Methods and Programs — Flashcards

Phylogenetic trees can be constructed using three main methods:
Distance-based methods: Such as neighbor-joining. These methods calculate evolutionary distances between sequences using substitution models. The distance matrix is then used to construct the phylogenetic tree.
Parsimony-based methods: Such as maximum parsimony.
Character-based methods: Such as maximum likelihood or Bayesian inference. This method is also called the discrete method because it is based directly on the sequence characters.
Phylogenetic trees can be represented in three forms: Phylogram, Dendrogram, Cladogram.

Topics include: Distance Based Methods, Character Based Methods, Phylogenetic Tree Evaluation, Phylogenetic Programs, Maximum Parsimony Method, The Maximum Likelihood Approach, & Reliability of Phylogenetic Predictions.