Which one of the following is a distance based method of tree construction ?
MH SET - 2019, SET Exam - 2019,
Answer: A
The distance-based method is UPGMA.
UPGMA (unweighted pair group method with arithmetic mean) first converts sequences into a matrix of pairwise distances, then repeatedly joins the two closest taxa or clusters and recomputes average distances until one tree remains. Neighbour-joining is the other well-known distance method.
Maximum parsimony, maximum likelihood and Bayesian methods are character-based: they evaluate trees from the individual sites of the alignment, not from a summary distance matrix.
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