Monday, December 15, 2008

Lecture - Genome evolution

We covered the topic of genome evolution (p. 245-260).

We talked about the most common cases of mutations that promote genome evolution, what happens when genomes diverge, the relationship between the degree of divergence and phylogeny, why genome sizes in vertebrates can vary so much, and questions you can solve by comparing multiple genomes anf their rate of evolution.

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