Four of the statements are true of cladistics. Which statement is false?

a. It involves making hypotheses about the evolutionary relationship between clades.
b. It is a precise science.
c. It can lead to the creation of a cladogram.
d. It may involve parsimony analysis.
e. It may use outgroups to ‘root’ the tree


ANSWER: b

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