One of the Reasons That Pufferfish Are a Good Species

question 24

Multiple Choice

One of the reasons that pufferfish are a good species to compare to humans is because

• A)it is so easy to hybridize the two and investigate the consequences.
• B)they are so distantly related that it's easy to distinguish mutually conserved sequences.
• C)the introns are often identical.
• D)of the rapid response time in pufferfish to artificial selection.
• E)they have been separated for so many millions of years and yet the gene sequence is almost identical.

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