Question

A scientist is trying to determine how closely related moth species is to four other moth species. He examined the DNA of each species and compared it to the study subject. He then created this table:

Which species is most closely related to the original moth species?
A: species a
B: species b
C: species c
D: species d

Answer 1

I would say species b since it has the least amount of differences

Answer 2

Answer: Option B

Step-by-step explanation: Two species are said to be similar if they have least number of differences and here, we can easily see that the specie B have only 3 differences.

The least the number of differences the more will be the number of similarity.The other species have more differences which states that it not that closely related to moth.