Which kind of DNA should provide the best molecular clock for gauging the evolutionary
relatedness of several species whose common ancestor became extinct billions of years ago?
a. that coding for ribosomal RNA
b. intronic DNA belonging to a gene whose product performs a crucial function
c. paralogous DNA that has lost its function (i. e., no longer codes for functional
gene product)
d. mitochondrial DNA
e. exonic DNA that codes for a non-crucial part of a polypeptide