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Biochemistry Enzyme Specificity and Allosteric Regulation 7c95875a

Different sequence of amino acids having similar structure of proteins is an example of

A
Divergence
B
Convergence
C
Opportunistic
D
Incidental
High-Yield Explanation
Ans. is 'b' i.e. Convergence Divergence and convergence are two evolutionary processes by which organisms become adapted to their environments.Convergence has been defined as the acquisition of morphologically similar traits between distinctly unrelated organisms.Convergence occurs at every level of biological organization.Functional ConvergenceThis refers to molecules that serve the same function but have no sequence or structural similarity and carry out their function by entirely different mechanisms.Mechanistic convergenceMechanistic convergence occurs when the sequence and structure of molecules are very different but the mechanisms by which they act are similar.Structural ConvergenceThis refers to molecules with very different amino acid sequences that can assume similar structural motifs, which may carry out similar functions.Sequence ConvergenceIn sequence convergence, one or more critical amino acids or an amino acid sequence of two proteins come to resemble each other due to natural selection. (In protein evolution, sequence divergence, rather than sequence convergence is the rule.)

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