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Here is an undirected graph

  m = Graph[{1 \[UndirectedEdge] 3, 2 \[UndirectedEdge] 3, 
   3 \[UndirectedEdge] 4, 4 \[UndirectedEdge] 5, 
   4 \[UndirectedEdge] 6, 5 \[UndirectedEdge] 7, 
   6 \[UndirectedEdge] 8}, GraphLayout -> "SpringEmbedding", 
  VertexLabels -> "Name", ImagePadding -> 10]

We can get the Adjacency Matrix as follows

g = AdjacencyMatrix[m]

The Normal Form of the sparse array g is as follows. 

In[28]:= Normal[g]

Out[28]= {{0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, {1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0}, {0, 1, 
  0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, {0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 
  0}, {0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1}, {0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 0, 0,
   0, 1, 0, 0}}

The adjacency matrix does not appear to be correct for the graph m.

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The ordering of the vertices used for AdjacencyMatrix is that given in VertexList[m]: 

ordering={1, 3, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8}

Thus, while it looks like the adjacency matrix is saying that 1 and 2 are joined. If you look at the ordering in VertexList You'll see that the second element is actually node number 3.

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