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One important example is the cytochrome c gene that has been present in living forms since the carboniferous period, about 359.2 to 299 million years ago, according to paleontological discoveries in organisms that have been living since that geological period. Many genetic screening efforts of genealogical correspondence among species is based on the cytochrome c gene.

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