Question

There is a unique advantage of multiple sequence alignment because it reveals more biological information than many pair wise alignments can.

(a) True

(b) False

I had been asked this question in an online interview.

My doubt is from Exhaustive Algorithms in portion Multiple Sequence Alignment of Bioinformatics

Answer 1

Right option is (a) True

Best explanation: It is truly an advantage of multiple sequence alignment. For example, it allows the identification of conserved sequence patterns and motifs in the whole sequence family, which are not obvious to detect by comparing only two sequences.