parsimony - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • use: Sixty six morphological character matrices were analyzed using parsimony.

Adjective modifier

  • theoretical: More than not, however, reductive realists object to non-reductivists on grounds of theoretical parsimony.

Modifies a noun

  • procedure: Codon degeneracy 2. 5. Construction of ancestral sequences by parsimony procedures 2.6.

Noun used with modifier

  • tree: During this discussion we introduce a number of recent developments of gene tree parsimony methods overlooked by Simmons and Freudenstein.
  • gene: During this discussion we introduce a number of recent developments of gene tree parsimony methods overlooked by Simmons and Freudenstein.

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