For unrooted trees, the number of unrooted tree topologies (NU) is ________

For unrooted trees, the number of unrooted tree topologies (NU) is ________ Correct Answer NU = (2n− 5)!/2n−3(n− 3)!

The number of possible topologies increases extremely rapidly with the number of taxa. For six taxa, there are 105 unrooted trees and 945 rooted trees. If there are ten taxa, there can be 2,027,025 unrooted trees and 34,459,425 rooted ones.

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