What Can Be Can Be Determined by Calculating the Average

question 17

Multiple Choice

What can be can be determined by calculating the average number of amino acid or nucleotide changes that have occurred per site in a molecule since two or more evolving lineages diverged from a common ancestor?
1) The amount of phenotypic evolution
2) The rate of molecular evolution
3) The future of phenotypic evolution

• A) 1
• B) 2
• C) 3
• D) 1 and 3
• E) All of these

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Definitions:

Absorption

The process by which one substance takes up or takes in another substance, at the molecular or ionic level.

Frequency

The number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit of time, often used in the context of waves (e.g., sound waves, electromagnetic waves).

Inversely Proportional

A relationship between two variables where as one variable increases, the other variable decreases at a corresponding rate.

Directly Proportional

A relationship between two variables where if one increases, the other does as well, by a constant factor.