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#Question id: 8712


The lakes of northern Minnesota are home to many similar species of damselflies of the genus Enallagma. These species have apparently undergone speciation from ancestral stock since the last glacial retreat about 10 thousand years ago. Sequencing which of the following would probably be most useful in sorting out evolutionary relationships among these closely related species?

#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms
  1. conserved regions of nuclear DNA
  2. mitochondrial DNA
  3. amino acids in proteins
  4. ribosomal RNA