Homoplasy is a particular foil for one method of creating these, and homoplasy is misinterpreted as a synamorphy in an effect known as long branch attraction.
Geyer's method of creating these constructs makes use of a Metropolis-coupled Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithm and selects out hot chains and leaves the cold chain. One method for creating them relies on the use of a multiple alignment from an algorithm like ClustalW, followed by calculation of a distance matrix, then repeatedly joining nearest neighbors. Homoplasy is a particular foil for one method of creating these, and homoplasy is misinterpreted as a synamorphy in an effect known as long branch attraction. Maximum parsimony methods are the simplest for creating these constructs, and introducing an outgroup to them allows them to be rooted. A molecular clock is a useful assumption to infer timescales from these constructs, a particularly inclusive one of which used the sequences of 16S ribosomal RNA from many different organisms. For 10 points, name these often highly branched diagrams that show evolutionary relationships between taxonomic units.
Geyer's method of creating these constructs makes use of a Metropolis-coupled Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithm and selects out hot chains and leaves the cold chain.
phylogenetic trees [or evolutionary trees before mention]