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Phylogenetic tree construction

Wild and cultivated potatoes

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Check all true statements that correspond to the following figure. It's a cladogram of Solanum genus; Solanum includes tuber-bearing potato (blue, dark-blue and purple groups), non-tuber-bearing potato (orange group), tomatoes (green group), eggplant (S. melongena) and other Solanum species. The picture is adapted from the original paper.

A cladogram of Solanum genus

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Wild tuber-bearing potatoes are closer to landrace potato species than tomatoes.

Non-tuber-bearing potatoes group diverge from tuber-bearing potatoes and tomatoes around 8.3 million years ago.

Non-tuber-bearing potatoes are closer to tuber-bearing potatoes than tomatoes.

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