Question 13 2.5 pts Why is homoplasy particularly problematic in the constructio

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Question 13 2.5 pts Why is homoplasy particularly problematic in the construction of molecular phylogenies from DNA sequence data? O Because each base can exist as one of only four states, the probability that separate lineages will independently converge on the same nucleotide at a position is relatively high Because bootstrap cannot be used for maximum likelihood and only for Bayesian inference Because maximum likelihood is used to infer phylogeneitc trees using Bayesian inference Because models of molecular evolution can increase the likelihood of homoplasy O Next Previous No new data to save. Last checked at 5:52pm Submit Quiz

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Answer: B) Because bootstrap cannot be used for Maximum likelihood and only for Bayesian inferences.

Bootstrap efficiently predicts for the Bayesian inferences but at places where maximum likelihood has to be predicted by bootstrap, there were high variations observed.

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