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For Each Statement Below, Indicate Whether It Is TRUE or FALSE

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For each statement below, indicate whether it is TRUE or FALSE, and explain why.

Premises:

Responses:

Most mutations and genome alterations have neutral consequences.

False

Proteins required for growth, metabolism, and cell division are more highly conserved than those involved in development and in response to the environment.

True

All highly conserved stretches of DNA in the genome are transcribed into RNA.

Introns and transposons tend to slow the evolution of new genes.

To find functionally important regions of the genome, it is more useful to compare species whose last common ancestor lived 100 million years ago rather than 5 million years ago.

Premises:

Most mutations and genome alterations have neutral consequences.

Proteins required for growth, metabolism, and cell division are more highly conserved than those involved in development and in response to the environment.

All highly conserved stretches of DNA in the genome are transcribed into RNA.

Introns and transposons tend to slow the evolution of new genes.

To find functionally important regions of the genome, it is more useful to compare species whose last common ancestor lived 100 million years ago rather than 5 million years ago.

Responses:

False

True

Correct Answer:

Premises:

Responses:

Most mutations and genome alterations have neutral consequences.

Proteins required for growth, metabolism, and cell division are more highly conserved than those involved in development and in response to the environment.

All highly conserved stretches of DNA in the genome are transcribed into RNA.

Introns and transposons tend to slow the evolution of new genes.

To find functionally important regions of the genome, it is more useful to compare species whose last common ancestor lived 100 million years ago rather than 5 million years ago.