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Lelechka [254]
3 years ago
9

What is the basis for the use of a molecular clock to determine the absolute time of evolutionary change?

Biology
1 answer:
dedylja [7]3 years ago
7 0

Nucleotide substitutions in a gene occur at a relatively constant rate.

A nonsynonymous substitution is a nucleotide mutation that alters the amino acid sequence of a protein. Nonsynonymous substitutions differ from synonymous substitutions, which do not alter amino acid sequences and are (sometimes) silent mutations.

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