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#Question id: 5232


Using molecular clock, it was estimated that two species X and Y must have diverged from their common ancestor about 5 x 10^6 years ago. If the rate of divergence per base pair is estimated to be 0.06 per million years, what is the proportion of base pairs that differ between the two species now?

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior
  1. 0.70

  2. 0.005

  3. 0.17

  4.  0.6