The tree construction process is somewhat similar to that used UPGMA.

The tree construction process is somewhat similar to that used UPGMA. Correct Answer False

Rather than building trees from the closest pair of branches and progressing to the entire tree, the NJ tree method begins with a completely unresolved star tree by joining all taxa onto a single node and progressively decomposes the tree by selecting pairs of taxa based on the above modified pairwise distances. This allows the taxa with the shortest corrected distances to be joined first as a node.

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