What Is the Purpose of GenBank

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Multiple Choice

What is the purpose of GenBank?

• A) It can put organisms into monophyletic groups.
• B) It is a replacement for the principle of parsimony.
• C) It is a proposed universal system to classify organisms.
• D) It is useful in calibrating molecular clocks.
• E) It stores large amounts of genetic information about organisms.

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