Which of These Would, If It Had Acted Upon a Gene

question 33

Multiple Choice

Which of these would, if it had acted upon a gene, prevent this gene from acting as a reliable molecular clock?

• A) neutral mutations
• B) genetic drift
• C) mutations within introns
• D) natural selection
• E) most substitution mutations involving an exonic codon's third position

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