Question

Two more recent uses of phylogenetic analysis are to analyze ______ and to trace the evolutionary history of specific genes. Which of the following could not be the correct blank?

(a) gene families

(b) genomes

(c) proteomes

(d) physical separation methods

The question was asked in semester exam.

I'd like to ask this question from Reliability of Phylogenetic Predictions topic in portion Phylogenetic Tree Construction Methods and Programs of Bioinformatics

Answer 1

Right choice is (d) physical separation methods

For explanation: Options here, indicate the laboratory operations unlike the computational data mentioned in other options. For example, database similarity searches may identify several proteins in a plant genome that are similar to a yeast query protein.