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Verdich [7]
3 years ago
7

Biologists estimate how long ago species separated from a common ancestor using a technique called

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Oksanka [162]3 years ago
8 0
<span>The answer is molecular clocks.

Molecular clocks use rates of mutation to measure evolutionary time. This technique is based on the fact that mutations add up at a fairly constant rate in the DNA of species that evolved from a common ancestor. The more mutations that happened in each lineage, the greater is the differences between these lineages and vice versa.</span>
GenaCL600 [577]3 years ago
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Your answer is <em>molecular clocks</em>.

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