Gene Trees Can Be Used to Estimate Times of Coalescence

question 30

Multiple Choice

Gene trees can be used to estimate times of coalescence for

• A) only closely related alleles in a population.
• B) only distantly related alleles in a population.
• C) all populations where a single individual had the ancestral allele.
• D) all possible pairwise combinations of different alleles in a population.

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