Question

You are attempting to annotate a segment of a new fruit fly genome. You find that when the new genome segment is translated it matches a D. melanogaster protein with high number of identical amino acids found in the two species. However, you notice that the translation of the new genome segment results in multiple stop codons in the region that matches D. melanogaster. Given this observation, this gene might be a Paralog Dialogue Pseudogene Unrelated gene 08

Answer 1

Pseudogenes.

Explanation : because of the mutations occured in some of the genes due to which the coding sequence contains many stop codons these type of gene is called pseudogene.