Groups of Related,but Distinctly Different Genes That Appear to Have

question 47

Multiple Choice

Groups of related,but distinctly different genes that appear to have arisen from a single ancestral gene are referred to as

• A)segmental duplications.
• B)pseudogenes.
• C)tandem clusters.
• D)multigene families.
• E)expressed sequences.

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