Which statement about molecular clocks is true?
A) They can give an average rate of change in an amino acid sequence.
B) They can only be used to date very ancient events.
C) When different proteins are compared, the slope of the plotted line representing the average rate of divergence is the same for all proteins.
D) They do not show the timing of splits between lineages.
E) They cannot predict the order in which evolutionary lineages diverged.

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Molecular clocks can give an average rate of change in an amino acid sequence, which can be used to estimate when different organisms diverged from a common ancestor.

Which Statement About Molecular Clocks Is True