Until the mid-1940s, many scientists considered proteins to be the likely candidates for the genetic material. Why?

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Proteins are the most abundant, universally distributed components in cells. They were considered likely candidates because of their great structural and functional diversity.

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A gene in a sheep-like species has been found to differ from that in related species by the inclusion of a variable number of tandem repeats of a short sequence. These repeats or duplications arise from what process?

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Inversions are movements of DNA from one chromosome to another

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Which is the only surviving Asian great ape?

A. Orangutan B. Gorilla C. Chimpanzee D. Monkey E. Gibbon

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An unrooted tree linking three species is shown above. Draw all possible unrooted tree conformations when a fourth species, D, is added to the tree

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