What Characteristics Make a Gene a Good Candidate for Determining

question 73

Multiple Choice

What characteristics make a gene a good candidate for determining the evolutionary relationships between organisms?

• A) highly conserved
• B) universally distributed
• C) transferred horizontally between species
• D) highly conserved and universally distributed

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Definitions:

Ages of Jockeys

Refers to the distribution or range of years that professional riders of horses in races fall into.

Extreme Values

Values in a data set that are significantly higher or lower than the majority of the observations.

Box Plot

A standardized way of displaying the distribution of data based on a five number summary: minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile, and maximum.

Distribution

The method by which something is distributed among a group or dispersed across an area.