News about the course Grades have been assigned and turned in. You can pick up your final exam paper in J205 HSB from the secretary at the desk nearest the door of that office. Your final exam point total, course point total, and grade are on the exam. A distribution of the course point totals with indication of grades is posted on the bulletin board outside of that office. You get most of the points just for making an honest effort to do them, so trying is definitely worth it.
People seem to be having trouble doing the molecular phylogeny homework.
Try using the T option of the rearrangement part of the program, and then use the R option to rearrange the tree to put the group in the best place found. When no further T commands find better placements, you have got a good guess at the most parsimonious tree. As the exercise is still hard even with that, I withdraw part 2 of the question. Just answer part 1. There is be a new computer simulation exercise this year, in addition to the ones on molecular phylogeny and on population genetics.