Fill in the answer that best completes the following sentence: ____________ in g

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Fill in the answer that best completes the following sentence:

____________ in grasses is/are responsible for differences in genome size.

A. Environmental pressures of the native environments

B. Accumulations of point mutations (insertions) over millions of years

C. Transposable elements

D. Number of years since evolutionary divergence from a common ancestor

A. Environmental pressures of the native environments

B. Accumulations of point mutations (insertions) over millions of years

C. Transposable elements

D. Number of years since evolutionary divergence from a common ancestor

Explanation / Answer

The difference in genome size observed in poaceae family is mainly due to the evolutionary divergence from the common ancestor during a number of years ago. This is the reason for the evolutionary dynamics of grass genome.

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