You Are Studying 12 New Isolates from the Human Skin

question 72

Multiple Choice

You are studying 12 new isolates from the human skin. Their average nucleotide identity for shared orthologous genes is 97%.The isolates would most likely be

• A) classified as individual strains of the same species.
• B) classified as individual species of the same genus.
• C) split into different families.
• D) classified as the same species if they can mate via conjugation.

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