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Question 1: Summarize what the author means by "long-term implications" and "short-term effects" of gene duplication.
Question 2: What is a paralagous gene?
Question 3: What is the goal of the paper?
Question 4: Describe the redundancy model that the author attributes to Ohno (1970).
Question 5: Why is it important to understand dosage of duplicate genes when studying adaptive evolution through gene duplication?
Question 6: Which type of selection is likely to lead to the fixation of a gene duplicate in the genome?
Positive selection
Negative selection
Question 7: Explain how examining the ratio of nonsynonymous to synonymous mutations (dN/dS) allows us to infer whether a duplicate is under positive or negative selection.
Question 8: Summarize the first paragraph of section (d). What are the key points in this section?
Question 9: How is gene duplication involved in drug resistance?
Question 10: Summarize the three generalizations regarding when adaptive duplication may be expected to play a role in adaptive evolution.
Question 11: What is the main message of this paper?