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To: BroJoeK

“At the protein level, 29 percent of genes code for the same amino sequences in chimps and humans.”

Somehow you also missed this portion.

TTFN.


328 posted on 12/11/2009 9:13:54 AM PST by BenKenobi
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To: BenKenobi
"Somehow you also missed this portion."

Oh? And how much did you miss?

"The consortium found that the chimp and human genomes are very similar and encode very similar proteins. The DNA sequence that can be directly compared between the two genomes is almost 99 percent identical. When DNA insertions and deletions are taken into account, humans and chimps still share 96 percent of their sequence. At the protein level, 29 percent of genes code for the same amino sequences in chimps and humans. In fact, the typical human protein has accumulated just one unique change since chimps and humans diverged from a common ancestor about 6 million years ago.

"To put this into perspective, the number of genetic differences between humans and chimps is approximately 60 times less than that seen between human and mouse and about 10 times less than between the mouse and rat. On the other hand, the number of genetic differences between a human and a chimp is about 10 times more than between any two humans."

Which part of this do you dispute? ;-)

329 posted on 12/11/2009 9:50:45 AM PST by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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