Dogs and wolves share a very recent common ancestor. It is due to sequence homo-logy.
Sequence homo-logy refers to the similarity in the order of the nucleotide/proteins sequences due to a common origin.
Sequence homo-logy can be used to represent evolutionary lineages of two or more taxa.
Sequence divergence refers to the difference between two or more sequences (either nucleotide or protein sequence) between taxa.
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