Biology · Systematics and Evolution

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 or distance matrix and the final tree is rooted. D. It permits lineages with largely different branch lengths and corrections for multiple substitutions. Which one of the following options represents the correct properties?