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To: AndrewC
The "same" way we explain that bat mitochondrial DNA is more similar to chicken mitochondrial DNA than chicken mitochondrial DNA is to bat mitochondrial DNA or that bat mitochondrial DNA is more similar to mosquito mitochondrial DNA than chicken mitochondrial DNA is to mosquito mitochondrial DNA.

Really? Why should it be so? Why are chickens and bats more similar to each other than to mosquitos, especially since we're talking mitochodrial DNA, and not the genome of the organisms themselves?

60 posted on 03/01/2003 6:09:26 AM PST by general_re (Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.)
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To: general_re
Really? Why should it be so? Why are chickens and bats more similar to each other than to mosquitos,

"Why should it be so", is a metaphysical question. I don't know. But what causes the relationships between the mitrochondrial DNA that I have listed? Why should something about a bat be closer to a mosquito than that "same" something in a chicken compared to the mosquito? What is "closer" to a fish, a chicken or a bat?

61 posted on 03/01/2003 8:22:40 AM PST by AndrewC
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