Friday, April 10, 2015

017-2015

MO640 - Multiple-choice question

Which assignment of ancestor states yields the minimum number of changes, given the topology and the species vs. characters matrix below:


Characters
Species C1 C2
S1 1 1
S2 1 0
S3 0 0
S4 0 1


a)

C1 C2
X 0 0
Y 1 1
Z 0 0

b)

C1 C2
X 1 0
Y 1 0
Z 1 0

c)

C1 C2
X 0 0
Y 1 0
Z 0 0

d)

C1 C2
X 0 1
Y 1 1
Z 0 0

e) None of the above.

Original idea by: Miriam Ito



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