Similarly, if the inhibitor binds to a different site from the substrate and reduces the affinity of the enzyme for the substrate without altering the reaction characteristics of that substrate which does bind, then hyperbolic competitive inhibition results

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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

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A mutation that confers a more advantageous phenotype to an organism, relative to individuals in the same population without the mutation, called as positive selection.