An important indicator of evolutionary relatedness is to determine:

a. size of the periplasmic space
b. similarities of cell membrane proteins
c. size of the bacterial chromosome
d. nitrogen base sequence of rRNA
e. size of the ribosomes


Answer: d. nitrogen base sequence of rRNA

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