Chapter 20, Problem 3

What is functional genomics? How does it differ from comparative genomics?

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Hey everyone, Let's take a look at this question. Together, many scientists work on identifying conserved genes among species to determine the evolutionary changes among organisms. What approach is used in these investigations when we know that these scientists are working on identifying conserved genes among different species to determine those evolutionary changes among the organisms. And they do this by taking the genomic sequence of an organism and they use it for comparison to detect those evolutionary changes. And this is a process called comparative genomics or answer choice C. The correct answer because in this comparative genomics we are using the genomic sequence of the organisms to compare them to detect those evolutionary changes. So answer choice C. Comparative genomics is the correct answer. I hope you found this video to be helpful. Thank you and goodbye.

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