The Lakes of Northern Minnesota Are Home to Many Similar

Multiple Choice

The lakes of northern Minnesota are home to many similar species of damselflies of the genus Enallagma. These species have apparently undergone speciation from ancestral stock since the last glacial retreat about 10 thousand years ago. Sequencing which of the following nucleic acids or proteins would probably be most useful in sorting out evolutionary relationships among these closely related species?

A) conserved regions of nuclear DNA
B) mitochondrial DNA
C) amino acids in proteins
D) ribosomal RNA