Glossary in Phylogeny Construction

G


Gap

In order to align all of the homologous positions in sequences of unequal lengths it is necessary to introduce gaps into an alignment.

Gene tree

A branching diagram that depicts the known or (usually) inferred relationships among an historically related group of genes or other nucleotide or amino acid sequences.

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