The Best Way to Detect Whether Lateral Gene Transfer Has

question 141

Multiple Choice

The best way to detect whether lateral gene transfer has occurred would be by

• A) looking for orphaned LTRs in the genome.
• B) looking for genes whose phylogenies differ from that of most of the genes.
• C) bioprospecting.
• D) comparing the ratios of synonymous and nonsynonmyous substitutions.
• E) comparing the transition to transversion ratios.

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