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Author Question: The lakes of northern Minnesota are home to many similar species of damselflies (Read 671 times)

geoffrey

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on: Jul 14, 2013
The lakes of northern Minnesota are home to many similar species of damselflies of the genus Enallagma that have apparently undergone speciation from ancestral stock since the last glacial retreat about 10,000 years ago. Sequencing which of the following would probably be most useful in sorting out evolutionary relationships among these closely related species?
A) nuclear DNA
B) mitochondrial DNA
C) small nuclear RNA
D) ribosomal RNA
E) amino acids in proteins


penguins

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Reply #1 on: Jul 15, 2013
Easy! It's B. Bye for now :D


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