The branch-and-bound method starts building trees in a similar way as in the exhaustive method.

The branch-and-bound method starts building trees in a similar way as in the exhaustive method. Correct Answer True

The difference is that the previously established upper bound limits the tree growth. Whenever the overall tree length at every single stage exceeds the upper bound, the topology search toward a particular direction aborts. By doing so, it dramatically reduces the number of trees considered hence the computing time while at the same time guaranteeing to find the most parsimonious tree.

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