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research topic > natural science > biology > genetics > genetic distance

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genetic distance  

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  • [Henderson's] a measure of the difference between two DNAs from different species, which is used in the construction of phylogenetic trees. In its crudest form it is the percentage of nucleotide differences between the two DNAs. see also p-distance. alt. evolution­ary distance.

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http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/21622

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