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Molecular Phylogenetics

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MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS. Wisteria sinensis, Chinese wisteria.
Rains Houses, near Hacienda Commons.

In molecular phylogenetics, evolutionary trees are inferred from molecular characters—including such characters as protein sequences, presence or absence markers, or sequences of DNA itself.

Photo: Noah Rosenberg, October 9, 2020