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From: rising@utzoo.UUCP (Jim Rising)
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Subject: Is DNA hybridization phenetic? 
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Date: Fri, 30-Oct-87 14:41:50 EST
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Joe,

I'd be interested in your reasoning for saying that DNA hybridization
is not phenetic.  It would seem to me that a commparison of the unweighted
overall similarity in the DNA base sequences between two species could be
the ultimate phenetic method--depending, I suppose on how it was analysed.
Of course, I doubth that this is what DNA hybridization studies actually 
do, but don't they purport to do so?

--Jim Rising
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