The Chimp Genome is 15% Shorter than Human - So Why 99% Similarity?
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Fenrir wrote:Physically a chimp can do everything we can do but they are a bit smaller.
So naturally their genome can likewise do everything ours can do while physically a bit smaller.
Stands to reason really.
Thommo wrote:You could try looking it up.
Not all regions of a genome code for proteins, after all. I mean how similar would you say these sentences are?:-
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the seaaa@77cason of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the season of Darkness, it was the season of Darkness, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature04072
https://www.broadinstitute.org/news/com ... ifferences
truelgbt wrote:Are you saying the protein coding portions are the same length?
truelgbt wrote:Fenrir wrote:Physically a chimp can do everything we can do but they are a bit smaller.
So naturally their genome can likewise do everything ours can do while physically a bit smaller.
Stands to reason really.
Doesn't work that way as far as I know.
You are saying outward physical size plays a role and is somewhat proportionate to genome size? I don't think so.
The traditional comparison cited in textbooks is that the difference is 1.2 percent, based on variations in single base-pairs in gene sequences. “But our data on these duplications shows a 2.7 percent difference, base per base, between chimps and humans,” said Eichler. “So when we talk about how similar chimps and humans are, we really need to be careful that we are referring to variation in the whole genome as opposed to just those single-base-pair changes.”
laklak wrote:Meh, they're very similar to many of us, and almost identical to YECs.
laklak wrote:Meh, they're very similar to many of us, and almost identical to YECs.
laklak wrote:Meh, they're very similar to many of us, and almost identical to YECs.
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