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Biologists estimate how long ago species separated from a common ancestor using a technique called _____. a molecular clock radiometric dating relative dating stratigraphy

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A molecular clock is the right answer.

A molecular clock is basically the average rate at which a species' genome accumulates mutations, used to measure their evolutionary divergence and in other calculations.

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A. Molecular clock should be your answer

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