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Genes for the oxygen-carrying proteins hemoglobin and myoglobin descend from a common ancestor but act in very distinct ways today. They are _____. Group of answer choices paralogous shared ancestral characters paraphyletic horizontally transferred

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Answer: paralogous

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Paralogous genes are a class of homologous genes which are due to the duplication of gene, then this are refered to as paralogous.

Genes for the oxygen-carrying proteins hemoglobin and myoglobin descend from a common ancestor but act in very distinct ways today. They are referred to as paralogous.

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