You Sequence the Genes That Code for an Important Glycolytic

question 17

Multiple Choice

You sequence the genes that code for an important glycolytic enzyme in a moth, a mushroom, a worm, and an alga, and find a high degree of sequence similarity among these distantly related species. This is an example of

• A) analogy/convergent evolution.
• B) structural homology.
• C) genetic homology.
• D) developmental homology.

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