In Nature, What Is the Major Mechanism of Introducing New

question 13

Multiple Choice

In nature, what is the major mechanism of introducing new genes into eukaryotic genomes?

• A) unequal crossing over at microsatellite repeats
• B) pseudogene creation
• C) transfer from viruses
• D) pseudogene restoration
• E) duplication followed by evolutionary divergence

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Meta-Analyses

A statistical technique that combines the results of multiple scientific studies to arrive at a comprehensive conclusion.

Conceptual Replications

Attempts to confirm previous research findings using different methods or procedures to test the same underlying hypotheses.

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The attempt to precisely recreate the conditions and methodology of a study to verify its findings, with no alterations.

Meta-Analysis

A statistical method that combines the results of multiple scientific studies to arrive at a conclusion that has greater statistical power.