Why might identical copies of a gene at nonhomologous loci be maintained?
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: One possibility is that, although they encode the same polypeptide, they are expressed at different times or in different tissues. Another possibility is that additional copies are necessary to produce sufficient quantities of the gene product.
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