Q1. Comparisons of amino acid sequences can shed light on evolutionary divergence of related species. Would you expect all the proteins of given set of living species to demonstrate the same degree of divergence? Why or why not?

Q2. A student, who has not learned properly how to prepare solutions, added 25.7 g of sucrose to exactly 150.0 mL of dH2O and assumed that a 0.5 M solution had been prepared. The total solution volume increased to 168.0 ml after sucrose was dissolved and the solution was thoroughly mixed.

Find out the actual concentration of the sucrose solution prepared by the student.