Crickets and Fruit Flies Are Both Insects

question 3

Multiple Choice

Crickets and fruit flies are both insects. Which of the following statements could explain why a certain cricket genome has eleven times as many base pairs as that of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster?

• A) Crickets have higher gene density.
• B) Drosophila are more complex organisms.
• C) Crickets must have more noncoding DNA.
• D) Crickets must make many more proteins.

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