Biology A-Level
Evolutionary relationships between species
What Evolutionary relationships between species means in Biology A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Evolutionary relationships between species
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Inferred from the overall degree of similarity across the genome, where greater similarity indicates a closer relationship and more recent common ancestry.
Topics that use Evolutionary relationships between species
- Manipulating genomes (OCR A-Level)
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