Which of the following does not provide molecular evidence for evolution?
A) The 1,000-fold differences in nonsynonymous substitutions between some genes
B) The existence of pseudogenes
C) The fact that high-expression genes use amino acids that are less energetically costly than those used by low-expression genes
D) The fact that there is a lower rate of nucleotide substitutions in coding regions than in noncoding regions of genes
E) All these are molecular evidence for evolution
E
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