If you want to prevent yourself from being bias you must not base anything off of your opinion, or what you think is the right answer.
Everything must be strictly facts with no intention of trying to persuade the reader. If you truly believe that you need something in your paper, make sure you can support your claim with actual facts (it is very important that you back up all of your claims with actual facts)
Refrain from using things like:
•In my opinion
•I think
•I believe
•I know
•Everyone knows that
Answer:
Derived traits shared among the species or other groups in a dataset are key to helping us build trees. As shown above, shared derived traits tend to form nested patterns that provide information about when branching events occurred in the evolution of the species.
Explanation:
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