Question

A truly robust phylogenetic relationship should have enough characters to support the relationship even if the dataset is perturbed in such away.

(a) True

(b) False

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This intriguing question comes from Phylogenetic Tree Evaluation topic in portion Phylogenetic Tree Construction Methods and Programs of Bioinformatics

Answer 1

Correct answer is (a) True

To explain: Otherwise, the noise introduced in the resampling process is sufficient to generate different trees, indicating that the original topology may be derived from weak phylogenetic signals. Thus, this type of analysis gives an idea of the statistical confidence of the tree topology.