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To: onedoug
And, you also were quite gracious in saying you didn't know if it was an example of divergent evolution or convergent evolution.

Come on guys... this is basic bio, freshman stuff.

Action- MreB, and tubulin-FtsZ are examples of:

a) convergent evolution
b) divergent evolution

30 posted on 01/14/2002 5:00:07 PM PST by tallhappy
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To: tallhappy
Action- MreB, and tubulin-FtsZ are examples of:

a) convergent evolution
b) divergent evolution

Sharing a (relatively recent) common ancestor = divergent.

Basis:

But where did microtubules come from? It now appears that tubulins share a common ancestor with a protein called FtsZ, a key player in bacterial cell division.

Has it occured to you yet that if you're going to question credentials, you really need to question the credentials of the authors of the study, or at least of the article? If neither the article nor the study is badly done, and the result doesn't support the "fundies"--of which you aren't one, but whose right to be silly you get all snarly over-- then you and they are still out of luck.

32 posted on 01/14/2002 5:13:01 PM PST by VadeRetro
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