A Molecular Evolutionist Is Collaborating with a Researcher Who Wants

question 211

Multiple Choice

A molecular evolutionist is collaborating with a researcher who wants to develop antibiotics that specifically bind to certain proteins on pathogenic chlamydia bacteria without harming beneficial bacteria in the host animal gut.The molecular evolutionary research approach that would best aid this project would be to investigate

• A) why the genomes of different organisms vary in size.
• B) how genomes acquire new functions.
• C) the organization of genomes in different bacterial species.
• D) the evolution of particular bacterial genes and their protein structures.
• E) the rate of evolutionary changes in particular bacterial genes.

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