Use the Following Information to Answer the Questions Below

question 40

Multiple Choice

Use the following information to answer the questions below.
You have isolated a gene sequence from the mustard plant Arabidopsis and have BLAST searched the NCBI database. Your sequence hit several EST sequences that were identified as transcription factors. These sequences were found in E.coli, Chlamydomonas (a green algae) , yeast, mice, and humans and only had a few base pair differences.
-What can be said about this sequence?

• A)It appears to be highly conserved.
• B)It has had many duplication events.
• C)It is an ancient gene.
• D)This sequence has been transposed to other species.
• E)It must be junk DNA.

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