Before nucleotide and amino acid sequences can be compared in an evolutionary framework, they must be aligned to account for

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Nucleotide and amino acid sequences often have deletions and insertions that can occur during evolution, which must be accounted for in order to properly compare sequences. Selection and neutrality, parallelisms and convergences, and gene families are also important factors in evolutionary analysis, but they do not directly affect sequence alignment.

Before Nucleotide and Amino Acid Sequences Can Be Compared in an Evolutionary