Question

What is molecular phylogeny?

Answer 1

Molecular Phylogeny:

1. Phylogeny is a branch of biology that studies the evolutionary relationships of different organisms.
2. Molecular phylogeny is the branch of phylogeny.
3. Their genetic material can be used to reconstruct evolutionary relationships.
4. It is concerned with the study and detailed analysis of organisms' molecular composition.
5. Here organism's genetic material is used to reconstruct evolutionary relationships.
6. one example is to compare homologous genetic sequences using a sequence alignment process.
7. It aids in identifying a similarity between T-Coffee and Clustal W.
8. Mitochondrial DNA data is used by molecular phylogeny to construct a "relationship tree"
9. It depicts the entire evolution of various organisms.