Multiple Choice
Assume DNA from samples of a virus in 2018 diverged, on average, 9 percent from a virus found in a person from 1988.If the total amount of divergence among contemporary samples were 27 percent, then the virus most likely would have entered the human population in the year _______, assuming a molecular clock.
A) 1895
B) 1928
C) 1943
D) 1958
E) 1988
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