Rice and its grain relatives, maize, barley, and wheat, diverged from a common ancestor 50 million years ago.However, the chromosomes of these plants demonstrate extensive conserved arrangements of segments.This phenomenon is called
A)linkage disequilibrium.
B)single nucleotide polymorphisms.
C)contig.
D)synteny.

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Synteny refers to the conservation of blocks of order within two sets of chromosomes that are being compared with each other, indicating a shared ancestry.

Rice and Its Grain Relatives, Maize, Barley, and Wheat, Diverged