Practice question

Question

The following statements were made describing the properties of a UPGMA tree ( Unweighted Pair Group Method with Arithmetic Mean): A. It describes species relationships and is therefore the best method to describe a new species. B . It is a method of hierarchical clustering. C . The raw data is a similarity matrix and the initial tree is rooted. D . It permits lineages with largely different branch lengths and corrections for multiple substitutions. [endif] Which one of the following options represents the correct properties ?