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You are using a molecular clock to investigate how long ago two taxa diverged. In the sequence of mitochondrial DNA you are using, in one location an arginine mutated to a thymine; thousands of years later, it mutated from thymine back to arginine. What effect will this reversion to arginine have on your estimate of the time of divergence?
A) It will have no effect.
B) You will slightly overestimate the time since the two taxa diverged.
C) You will slightly underestimate the time since the two taxa diverged.
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