Which data would not affect maximum likelihood estimates of phylogenies when comparing different tree hypotheses?

A. The tree topology
B. The lengths of the branches
C. The branching order of the tree
D. Nucleotide substitution rate
E. All of these are important for finding the most likely tree.


Ans: E. All of these are important for finding the most likely tree.

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