Similarity At Biology Glossary

What is it? Sequence identity between two nucleotide sequences. For example, 85% similarity means that 85 nucleotide positions out of 100 are identical in the two nucleotide sequences. Sequence similarity does not necessarily indicate that two sequences have common a

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