Question 45

(Multiple Choice)

What can be can be determined by calculating the average number of amino acid or nucleotide changes that have occurred per site in a molecule since two or more evolving lineages diverged from a common ancestor?
1)The amount of phenotypic evolution
2)The rate of molecular evolution
3)The future of phenotypic evolution


A) 1
B) 2
C) 3
D) 1 and 3
E) All of these

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