Refer to the Figure

question 234

Multiple Choice

Refer to the figure. Genome size varies widely among different multicellular organisms.What is the greatest contributing cause of this variation?

• A) The number of protein-coding genes
• B) The amount of noncoding DNA
• C) The number of duplicated genes
• D) The size of the organism
• E) The amount of positive selection for change in protein-coding genes

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