GATE XL · 2026 · XL-T
Question 103: Animal Diversity
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Question 103
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In her exploration of the Western Ghats, Dora finds four new species of fungi. Below is the DNA sequence alignment for a single locus from these new species that she calls Yeti, Unicorn, Bigfoot and Godzilla. Using the principle of parsimony and the DNA sequence alignment information below, which one or more of the following tree topologies represent(s) the relationship between these species?
Yeti: ATGC
Unicorn: ATGT
Bigfoot: ATGA
Godzilla: ATGT
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2026XL-T
GATE XL 2026 · Paper 1
Life Sciences · Original paper archive
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- Section XL-T
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