Question 2

(Multiple Choice)

Which of the following statements is TRUE?


A)The position of introns in most genes is conserved among vertebrates.
B)The more nucleotides there are in an organism's genome, the more genes there will be in its genome.
C)Because the fly Drosophila melanogaster and humans diverged from a common ancestor so long ago, any two fly genes will show more similarity to each other than it will to a human gene.
D)Two closely related organisms are more likely to have a genome of the same size than a more evolutionarily diverged animal.

Answer

A