The Species-Area Hypothesis Large areas contain more species than small areas because they can support larger populations and a greater range of habitats.

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Potential for secondary (hairpin) structure is found to be greater in introns than exons

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#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

Introns have negative Fold Potential i.e. potential to form stem loop

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#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

Genes that share a common ancestry have similar organizations with conservation of the positions of the introns.

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#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

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

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#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

Mutations occur at the same rate in both exons and introns, but exon mutations are eliminated more effectively by selection.

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#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

Introns may more freely accumulate point substitutions and other changes due to no selection pressure.  Introns evolve or accumulate mutations/changes much more rapidly than exons