The Accompanying Figure Shows the Percentage of Pairwise Genetic Comparisons

question 9

Multiple Choice

The accompanying figure shows the percentage of pairwise genetic comparisons within sample populations of living hominids,graphed against the percentage of sequence divergence for each pair.We can conclude from the figure that ________.

• A) any randomly selected pair of humans in the world should differ in their mitochondrial DNA sequences by less than 6%
• B) humans are more genetically diverse than Western chimpanzees
• C) hominid species do not differ significantly in levels of genetic diversity
• D) humans share a more recent common ancestor with bonobos than gorillas
• E) All of the above.

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