Neco 2020 Biology Question 44
Practice objective / multiple choice question 44 from the 2020 Neco Biology examination.
Two species of beetles show a nucleotide sequence divergence of 0.084 substitutions per site. If the molecular clock rate for the gene studied is 2\times10^{-9} substitutions per site per year, estimate the time (in million years) since the two species diverged, assuming the divergence accumulated equally in both lineages.
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This is Neco 2020 Biology Question 44. It is one of the objective questions from the 2020 Neco Biology examination.
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