Which of the following is untrue regarding the distance methods?
(a) The sequence pairs that have the largest number of sequence changes between them are termed ‘neighbors’
(b) On a tree, these sequences share a node or common ancestor position and are each joined to that node by a branch
(c) It produces a phylogenetic tree of the group
(d) It employs the number of changes between each pair in a group of sequences
This question was posed to me by my school teacher while I was bunking the class.
My doubt is from Maximum Parsimony Method in chapter Phylogenetic Tree Construction Methods and Programs of Bioinformatics