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The museum's molecular evolution exhibit explains how genetic evidence supports evolutionary relationships revealed by fossil evidence. Scientists compare DNA sequences to determine how closely related different species are. What does genetic similarity reveal about evolutionary relationships?
Question 7 options:

Genetic differences prove that species are not related through evolutionary processes

Species with more similar DNA sequences shared more recent common ancestors

All species have identical DNA sequences because they evolved from the same ancestor

Genetic similarity has no relationship to evolutionary connections between species
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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Species with more similar DNA sequences shared more recent common ancestors.

Reason: DNA accumulates changes (mutations) over time, so species that diverged more recently have had less time to accumulate differences. The other choices are incorrect for the reasons described above.