Multiple choice

The pseudogenes can interfere with the PCR and in situ hybridisation experiments. 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. They are also useful to find the rate of nucleotide substitutions, DNA loss, etc.

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

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

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