Why is satellite DNA not useful for establishing evolutionary relationships between species?
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: Satellites are highly variable in repeat number and change rapidly, so that similarity in copy number may be coincidental and not evidence for close evolutionary relationship. Also, new satellites are easily generated from existing satellites, and easily lost from the genome, so a shared satellite presence among species cannot be clearly interpreted.
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