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#Question id: 5217


Multigene families include two or more nearly identical genes or genes sharing nearly identical sequences. A classical example is the set of genes for globin molecules, including genes on human chromosomes 11 and 16. How might identical and obviously duplicated gene sequences have gotten from one chromosome to another?

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior
  1. by normal meiotic recombination

  2. by normal mitotic recombination between sister chromatids

  3. by transcription followed by recombination

  4. by chromosomal translocation