The Noncoding Regions of Mammalian Mitochondrial Genomes Have Little to No

question 7

Multiple Choice

The noncoding regions of mammalian mitochondrial genomes have little to no selective pressure. Which of the following are consequences of this condition?

• A) a rate of mtDNA repair is much lower than that of nuclear sequences
• B) noncoding mitochondrial DNA increases in nucleotide diversity more quickly than coding DNA
• C) a rate of mutation that can increase with successive generations in a maternal line
• D) a high rate of natural selection for genomes identical to those of the mother
• E) a high rate of loss of mitochondrial genomes relative to nuclear sequences

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