Class IV IF proteins compose the neurofilaments found in neurons

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The length of Introns is variable while exons are almost constant in length.

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Genes that share a common ancestry have similar organizations with conservation of the positions (of at least some) of the introns.

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The homology between two genes can be plotted in the form of a dot matrix comparison

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Sequences that presumably diverged as a result of gene duplication are paralogous.

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A gene family is defined as a group of genes that encode related or identical products as a result of gene-duplication events.

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Sequences that arose because of speciation are described as orthologous