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Article #1171Re: Man vs Woman vs Chimp DNA Percentages
From: krista.j.anderson
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 1990 19:59
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 1990 19:59
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<> <> In article <999@massey.ac.nz>, AChamove@massey.ac.nz (A.S. Chamove) writes: > Over the past few years, there has been a lot of debate on the following > question: > If chimps and humans are so close genetically, then why can we not make > hybrids? Of course a lot of people say that we can and could. Others > say that there are incompatibilites, but no one I have encountered has > been able to specify what those incompatibilites are. Can you? There's a different number of chromosomes. We have 46; I think chimps have 48, but it might be 44. In one species a chunk of one chromosome broke off and rejoined a different chromosome. Sorry I don't have details. -- Krista A. HONOR Our Neighbors' Origins and Rights!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!cbnewsd!kja From: kja@cbnewsd.att.com (krista.j.anderson) Newsgroups: sci.bio Subject: Re: Man vs Woman vs Chimp DNA Percentages Message-ID: <1990Sep21.195915.1913@cbnewsd.att.com> Date: 21 Sep 90 19:59:15 GMT References: <1803@anaxagoras.ils.nwu.edu> <68103@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <999@massey.ac.nz> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 16