Alright. Monday we have a test, and now I was making a practise test.
We have to make a maximum parsimony tree. We must do that monday again, so I want to know if I am thinking wrong, or if the answer model is incorrect.
The sequences are:
Seq 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
1 A T A A G C C
2 T C A C C T G
3 A T C C G A C
4 T G C A C T G
This results in:
1 2 3 4
----------------------------
1 |
2 | 6
3 | 3 6
4 | 6 3 6
And eventually, this results in:
1,3 2,4
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1,3 |
2,4 | 6
This is the tree in the correction model:
My tree has two 1,5's
instead of the two 3's
at the root of the tree. Because 6
is the last distance. 6/2 = 3
, so both branches should get a distance of 3. But, according to some examples I saw on the internet, it's a distance of 3 to the end of tree then, and not 3 to the next node. And there is already a distance of 1,5
in further benches at both sides, so only 1,5
remains (because 3 - 1.5 = 1.5
).
So, am I wrong, or is the correction model wrong? Then I know how I must do it at the real test.
Sorry if my English is bad, and it's a little hard to explain because English is not my native language, but if I am right, you should know what I mean.