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To: Right Wing Professor
Is it cheating to run a Blast job through NCBI's website? :)

Just for fun I ran the same human sequence against the Rhesus monkey.

>gb|AANU01283423.1| Macaca mulatta 1099214608000, whole genome shotgun sequence
Length=19382

 Score =  446 bits (241),  Expect = 4e-123
 Identities = 266/278 (95%), Gaps = 1/278 (0%)
 Strand=Plus/Minus

Query  1      CCAGCGTGCGTGTTCCTGTGCCTGTGGGAGCTGGCTATCTCAGCGGGTGGGTGCCTCACC  60
              |||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||||  |||||| ||||||||||||||||
Sbjct  12573  CCAGCGTGCGTGTT-CTGTGCCTGTGGGAGCTGGCCGTCTCAGTGGGTGGGTGCCTCACC  12515

Query  61     TTGCCCTGTCCTCCCCCTCGACCTCACTCTCCTTCCTTCTCATCCCCCTCCAGATTGACA  120
               |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| | ||||||||||||||
Sbjct  12514  CTGCCCTGTCCTCCCCCTCGACCTCACTCTCCTTCCTTCTCATTCTCCTCCAGATTGACA  12455

Query  121    AGTATCTCTATGCCATGCGGCTCTCCGATGAAACTCTCATAGATATCATGACTCGCTTCA  180
              |||||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sbjct  12454  AGTATCTCTATGCCATGCGGCTGTCCGATGAAACTCTCATAGATATCATGACTCGCTTCA  12395

Query  181    GGAAGGAGATGAAGAATGGCCTCTCCCGGGATTTTAATCCAACAGCCACAGTCAAGATGT  240
               |||||| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sbjct  12394  AGAAGGAAATGAAGAATGGCCTCTCCCGGGATTTTAATCCAACAGCCACAGTCAAGATGT  12335

Query  241    TGCCAACATTCGTAAGGTCCATTCCTGATGGCTCTGGT  278
              |||||||||||||||| |||||||| ||||||||||||
Sbjct  12334  TGCCAACATTCGTAAGATCCATTCCCGATGGCTCTGGT  12297

Whereas the chimp sequence was 99% the same as a human, the monkey is 95% same as a human.

Furthermore, the two base pairs in the chimp genome that were different from human (TA->GC along the first row, query is human, subject is monkey) are the same in the monkey and chimp. Chimp and monkey have GC, human has TA. However, they monkey has further changes that aren't in common with either chimp or human. So, the human and chimp share many of the same genes, and they are both slightly different than the monkey. There's a progression. Chimp is just a little different than human, monkey is a little more far removed from human. Etc. Just what one would expect from common ancestry.

The was already a great deal geological and fossil evidence in support of evolutionary theory. Comparative genomics has only strengthened the theory.

565 posted on 05/02/2006 9:33:59 AM PDT by Liberal Classic (No better friend, no worse enemy. Semper Fi.)
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To: Liberal Classic
Is it cheating to run a Blast job through NCBI's website?

People do much worse.

571 posted on 05/02/2006 9:46:03 AM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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