The Average Synonymous Substitution Rate in Mammalian Mitochondrial Genes Is

question 28

Multiple Choice

The average synonymous substitution rate in mammalian mitochondrial genes is ________ the average rate for nuclear genes.

• A) ten times
• B) fifty times
• C) five times
• D) twice
• E) one hundred times

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