Question 1

(Multiple Choice)

Lateral gene transfer means that phylogenetic analyses of different individual genes from the same set of organisms often yield results that are inconsistent with each other.What technique seems to avoid this problem and give us the clearest,most consistent view of the "tree of life"?


A) the polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
B) molecular clock analyses
C) "shotgun" rRNA sequencing from environmental samples
D) Bayesian phylogenetic reconstruction
E) whole-genome phylogenetic analysis

Answer

E