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A genetics sequence question that I cannot wrap my head around


midwinteroasis

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So a lecturer of mine posted up this question in a lecture

Q11. Below is an alignment of orthologous amino acid sequences from three
species (A, B and C). Species C is the known ‘outgroup’. Are the sequences evolving
in a clock like fashion?
A: G E N M E E V L T I N A C E
B: G E N E S E V I L A S S C R
C: G E N E E E V I T I N A C E

and that's all very well. Except I have no idea how to do that and when he posted the answer in the next lecture, I have no idea how that answer appeared. Which I shall show below

A: S E C E N D S R D H A T D E A M E L
B: S E Q A N C E R F N A N D G I M E S
C: A E Q E N C E S F N A N D G A S R N

I would be very grateful if anyone could provide me some insight to this. I'm pretty sure its not something difficult, just that my poor brain can't understand this. :wacko:

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