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How macro molecules like DNA and RNA play their crucial role in evolutionary history?

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Molecular evolution is the process of change in the sequence composition of molecules such as DNA. RNA and proteins across generations. It uses principles of evolutionarý biolog and population genetics to explain patterns in the changes of molecules. One of the most useful advancement in the development of molecular biology is proteins and other molecules that control life processes are conserved among species. A slight change that occurs over time in these conserved molecules (DNA, RNA and protein) are often called molecular clocks. Molecules that have been used to study evolution are cytochrome c (respiratory pathway) and rRNA (protein synthesis).
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