That Some Organisms Contain Much Larger Amounts of DNA Than

question 4

Multiple Choice

That some organisms contain much larger amounts of DNA than are apparently "needed" and that other relatively closely related organisms may have vastly different amounts of DNA is more typical in _.

• A) the alphoid rather than the diphloid family
• B) prokaryotes than in eukaryotes
• C) RNA viruses than in DNA viruses
• D) viruses than in bacteria
• E) eukaryotes than in prokaryotes

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