There Are About 700 Eukaryotic Genes That Have Obvious Prokaryotic

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Essay

There are about 700 eukaryotic genes that have obvious prokaryotic homologs.Would you predict that this set of genes would be enriched for genes that are used at distinct times during the life cycle of multicellular animals? Explain your answer.

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Definitions:

Frequency Distribution

A summary of data showing the number (frequency) of observations in each of several non-overlapping categories or bins.

Cumulative Frequency

A count of the number of occurrences that fall within certain class intervals or categories, accumulated from the beginning of a set of data up to each point.

Ogive

A visual representation of a cumulative frequency distribution.

Line Chart

A chart format that represents data through a sequence of points linked by linear segments, commonly employed to illustrate changes or movements across a temporal span.