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#Question id: 11159


Which kind of DNA should provide the best molecular clock for gauging the evolutionary relatedness of several species whose common ancestor became extinct billions of years ago?

#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms
  1. that coding for ribosomal RNA
  2. intronic DNA belonging to a gene whose product performs a crucial function
  3. paralogous DNA that has lost its function (i.e., no longer codes for functional gene product)
  4. mitochondrial DNA