The nervous system<span> is like a highway along which </span>your <span>brain sends and receives information about what is happening in the body and around it. This highway is made up of billions of nerve cells, or neurons (say new-rons) which join together to make </span>nerves<span>. A nerve is a fibre that sends impulses through the body.</span>
The process of cloning effectively involves taking a cell from your body and turning it back into an embryo. The embryo would then either develop into a human being as has been proposed by various scientists around the world and which is currently banned, or it would be turned into a stem cell.
Maximum Thrift is a method / philosophy that considers the shortest tree (in number of transformation steps) the best hypothesis about the phylogenetic relationship of a given set of terminals. Transformation step is the cost attributed to the change of character state in a given branch of the tree, be it the change from one nucleotide base to another, amino acids, or the color of an animal's iris. The fewer transformations, the shorter the tree, and therefore the more parsimonious. In this method, what programs do is to investigate as many alternative topologies as possible (or all if their array has less than 25 terminals; see more details below) given their character array. Each will be measured, and the shorter (optimal) trees will be retained as the most parsimonious result.
