A Fast Way for Nature to Generate New Proteins Is

question 62

Multiple Choice

A fast way for nature to generate new proteins is:

• A)generation of pseudogenes.
• B)mutation by neutral drift.
• C)shuffling protein domains or motifs.
• D)hypervariable positions.
• E)liberal substitution.

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