Imagine That You've Sequenced the Genome of a Human Pathogenic

question 23

Multiple Choice

Imagine that you've sequenced the genome of a human pathogenic bacterium.In the early stages of analysis,you discover a stretch of DNA that has a significantly different GC content (the proportion of bases that are G and

• A)convergent evolution
• B)both sequences are introns
• C)a high rate of mutation
• D)a low rate of mutation
• E)lateral gene transfer

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