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Researchers enter age of comparative genetics with large-scale study of vertebrate DNA
Arizona State University =>Nature ^
| 13-Aug-2003
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Posted on 08/14/2003 10:17:26 AM PDT by AdmSmith
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To: Old Professer
Going beyond this article. This is worldwide news, and it was featured on radio news this morning. Our DNA is closer to rats than to pigs is what was said on either Clear Channel or ABC, whichever feed was used.
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posted on
08/14/2003 2:20:50 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
To: RightWhale
Please support it, then.
To: RightWhale
Never mind, I found it myself on Google from the Philadelphia Inquirer:
Posted on Thu, Aug. 14, 2003
Caught in the rat race? No wonder
By Faye Flam
Inquirer Staff Writer
Dogs may be man's best friend but rats are closer relatives, according to a new study that compares stretches of DNA for 13 different animals - including human beings.
We primates share common stretches of DNA with rats and mice that weren't found in carnivores such as dogs and cats or hoofed animals such as pigs and cows. The researchers, who published their paper in today's issue of the journal Nature, also studied DNA from two fellow primates - baboons and monkeys - as well as chickens, zebrafish and two species of pufferfish.
To: Old Professer
Please support it, then. It's what they said. It doesn't seem surprising to me. Should it be?
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posted on
08/14/2003 2:42:10 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
To: RightWhale
It was only that what you said wasn't in the article posted; it's always better when sources are cited.
To: RightWhale
Good, you found something in writing. I was just listening to the radio.
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posted on
08/14/2003 2:44:42 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
To: js1138
I get one in 16, unless there are "words" that can't occur. I'm not sure that's correct either. We have not accounted for deletions, duplications, etc. A mutation can be more than just changing a single letter.
To: PatrickHenry
Placemarker
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posted on
08/14/2003 3:26:17 PM PDT
by
Aric2000
(If the history of science shows us anything, it is that we get nowhere by labeling our ignorance god)
To: Aric2000
Ratboy placemarker.
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posted on
08/14/2003 3:31:04 PM PDT
by
Junior
(Killed a six pack ... just to watch it die.)
To: Junior
Link to official website of
Willard.
To: <1/1,000,000th%
The supermarket tabloids say Chelsea's pregnant .. ... with Batboy's child!
To: Junior
after the outage placemarker
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posted on
08/15/2003 5:56:38 AM PDT
by
js1138
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