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Oksi-84 [34.3K]
4 years ago
6

What makes ribosomal RNA useful as a molecular clock?

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1 answer:
snow_lady [41]4 years ago
3 0

Answer:

-A slow mutation rate makes it useful for determining evolutionary relationships between ancient species.

Explanation:

rRNA is present in every organism and over the period of time, mutation occurs in DNA strand due to pol III.

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