Multiple choice

Pseudogenes, also known as noncoding DNA, are extra DNA in a genome that do not get transcribed into RNA to synthesise proteins. Which of the following statements regarding the pseudogenes is FALSE?

  1. Exact mapping of the pseudogenes onto chromosomes is extremely difficult.

  2. The absolute rate of mutation is lower in nucleus than the one occurring in mitochondria.

  3. They form a molecular record of the evolutionary history and statistics of the parental genome.

  4. Multiple pseudogenes of the same sequence are found in human genes.

  5. They are also useful to find the rate of nucleotide substitutions, DNA loss, etc.
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Explanation

They form a molecular record of the evolutionary history and statistics of the parental genome.

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