You Are Working in a Lab and Studying a Gene

question 151

Multiple Choice

You are working in a lab and studying a gene. You notice that many other genes in the same organism code for similar proteins. This is MOST likely the result of:

• A)duplication and divergence.
• B)reciprocal translocation.
• C)inversion.
• D)deletion.
• E)transposition.

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