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Study: Humans, Chimps More Different
Newsday ^
| 23 September 2002
Posted on 09/23/2002 6:59:47 PM PDT by JediGirl
WASHINGTON -- There are more differences between a chimpanzee and a human being than once believed, according to a new genetic study.
Biologists have long held that the genes of chimps and humans are about 98.5 percent identical.
But Roy Britten, a biologist at the California Institute of Technology, said in a study published this week that a new way of comparing the genes shows that the human and chimp genetic similarity is only about 95 percent.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...
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posted on
09/23/2002 6:59:47 PM PDT
by
JediGirl
To: JediGirl
But you'd better not mention African Americans and Gorillas in the same sentence...
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posted on
09/23/2002 7:04:57 PM PDT
by
Vidalia
To: Vidalia
At first I thought the subject line said "Study: Hamas, Chimps more Different". I am dissapointed.
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posted on
09/23/2002 7:07:41 PM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: JediGirl
To: Vidalia
To: VadeRetro; PatrickHenry
ping
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posted on
09/23/2002 7:16:14 PM PDT
by
JediGirl
To: Paul Atreides
Yep, walked right into that...
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posted on
09/23/2002 7:24:35 PM PDT
by
Vidalia
To: JediGirl
Great find!
(Still over in Jolly Old?)
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posted on
09/23/2002 7:32:15 PM PDT
by
VadeRetro
To: jennyp; Nebullis
New figures bump!
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posted on
09/23/2002 7:34:31 PM PDT
by
VadeRetro
To: JediGirl
More research money well-spent, no doubt....
To: VadeRetro
Yep. Enjoying the cool weather. It's 3:45 and I really should be asleep, but I had a really weird dream and it's kind of put me off from going back to sleep :P
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posted on
09/23/2002 7:46:05 PM PDT
by
JediGirl
To: JediGirl
It's 3:45 and I really should be asleep . . . Yep! </Nanny_mode>
'Bout ready to pack it in, here. Staying up to 11 is about my speed these days.
To: Paul Atreides
Show me the tongue and I will know why "she who shall not be named" married the monkey...
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posted on
09/23/2002 8:02:15 PM PDT
by
Vidalia
To: Vidalia
Remember, you asked for it...
To: Paul Atreides
It's Twoo! It's Twoo! When the Monster's tongue comes out, its eyes are closed!
I cannot wait, it's jpeg mining time for Halloween...
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posted on
09/23/2002 8:16:03 PM PDT
by
Vidalia
To: JediGirl
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posted on
09/23/2002 8:28:21 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
To: Slyfox
Ha! A pimpoonzee.
To: Xenon481
ping
To: JediGirl
JediGirl signed up 2001-04-19.
This account has been banned. Don't know what on earth happened, but I'll miss you, JG. Best of luck!
To: VadeRetro
New figures bump!Yes. When you think of annealing temperatures, you realize what a crude method it is. Inversions and deletions will show up if you chop up the DNA before annealing. But resolution, especially for genomes closely related is low. Direct sequence comparison will give a better answer. Notable is that the original 98% figure includes all the non-coding sequences. Sequence comparison of the full genome will have to wait until the chimp is sequenced. If the error is included in this new number, since it's a guess from a statistical sample, if it is much more accurate than the original number.
Problematic would be too much of a difference.
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posted on
09/24/2002 10:50:28 AM PDT
by
Nebullis
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