Life: The Science of Biology
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Author: David E. Sadava, David M. Hillis, H. Craig Heller, Sally D. Hacker
Publisher: W. H. Freeman
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The importance of using homologous characters in the construction of phylogenetic tree.

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Phylogeny is the study of biological species and their entities. It is considered that all the life present on the earth has one common ancestry. In order to understand the ancestry, phylogenetic tree is designed.

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