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Chapter 19, Problem 10TYK
When two protein-coding genes have very similar
a. one of them is a duplicate of the other, copied by aretrotransposon.
b. they are nonhomologous.
c. one of them is a pseudogene.
d. they were produced by unequal crossing-over.
e. they are transcribed in the same cell types.
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