Several years ago, scientists compared the genome of a wooly mammoth to that of an African elephant and found them to be 98.5% identical. This is an example of what type of "-omics"?

A) space-age genomics
B) stone-age genomics
C) extinctomics
D) exomics
E) proteomics


Answer: B

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