Phylogenetic Trees and Geneious Prime

Phylogenetic Trees and Geneious Prime

Assessment

Interactive Video

Biology

10th - 12th Grade

Hard

Created by

Evelyn Hayes

FREE Resource

5 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the primary purpose of phylogenetic trees?

To organize library books

To calculate mathematical probabilities

To infer evolutionary relationships among sequences

To display geographical data

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which aligner is recommended for medium-sized data sets in Geneious Prime?

ClustalW

MUSCLE Aligner

MAFFT

T-Coffee

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which method is used by the Geneious Tree Builder to produce distance trees?

Parsimony

Maximum likelihood

Bayesian

Neighbor Joining

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What feature allows you to change the root of a phylogenetic tree in Geneious Prime?

Alignment View

Color Nodes

Swap Siblings

Root

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How can you view the underlying alignment for a tree in Geneious Prime?

By adjusting the font size

By changing the tree layout to circular

By selecting the Swap Siblings option

By clicking the Alignment View button