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The Number of Actual Substitutions That Have Occurred Between Diverging

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The number of actual substitutions that have occurred between diverging lineages in a sequence will usually be _______ than the number of substitutions observed when sequences are compared, and this discrepancy should _______ with increasing evolutionary divergence.


A) greater; increase
B) greater; decrease
C) fewer; increase
D) fewer; stay the same
E) fewer; decrease

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