Question

An approach to classification of genes that encode enzymes is to examine relationships among multiple enzymes that perform the same biochemical function in the same organism.

(a) True

(b) False

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This interesting question is from Functional Classification of Genes topic in division Genome Analysis of Bioinformatics

Answer 1

Right answer is (a) True

For explanation: Although catalyzing the same reaction, these enzymes showed variations in metabolic regulation of their activity. More than one-half of multiple enzymes in E. coli share significant sequence similarity; i.e., they are paralogs. However, the remainder do not share any sequence similarity.