About 98% of a chimpansees' DNA is identical to that of humans. What  is impossible between humans and chimps?
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I think you need to be a little more specific.\n\nIncidently we have found many things that may be just as important as what genes you have in terms of what makes organisms similar.\n\nFor instance they have found that there can be variation in the number of gene copies you get (this even varies person to person). \n\nThere are various non-coding regions in DNA that may have functions we don't know about. For instance we know some of them are involved with turning genes on and off.\n\nProteins, the products of genes, are often altered after they have been made.\n\nRNA (chemically related to DNA) may have other functions we are currently unware of. The have found RNA that has been linked to turning genes on and off.\n\nRNA is the messangaer molecule that tells the protein making machinary (ribosomes) how to make a protein. Some RNA has been found that DOESN'T do this. They have found RNA in trees that is used to fight off viruses by binding to foreign virus DNA (this may happen in animals too). \n\nWe are learning lot of new things about RNA and post-translational (changes after proteins are first made) changes.\n\nSo don't judge similarity purely on DNA similarity because similarity is based on similarity genes rather than non-coding regions and the other things I talked about.
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1. There is no such thing as a "lower primate". Only creationists who are ignorant of evolutionary science would ever  use such a term. All organisms have been evolving for EXACTLY the same amount of time. There are no "lower" organisms.\n\n2. We are not simply the descendants of apes, we ARE apes. Humans are one of the 5 currently living great ape species. \n\n3. The most compelling evidence is in the degre of genetic homogeneity, with over 95% of genetic material shared between humans and the chimp species.
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I think that the DNA would be the same as any other human.
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Pigs and humans: no.\nChimps and humans: maybe.\n\nHonestly, the scientific jury is still out on whether or not humans are able to crossbreed with apes.  Rumours have cropped up within the scientific community for years, but no definitive cases have presented themselves.  Check out the link below for some interesting reading on the topic.
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Some Dude gave a great answer-I would add, just for interest, that the human race has exceedingly little genetic variation compared to other animals.  A recent study showed that an average-sized chimpanzee colony has more genetic variation that the entire human race.  This is presumably because at some point in the recent past (150-200,000 years) our common ancestors existed, and evidently our race must have been very close to going extinct, leaving a very small pool of humans with which to populate the Earth.
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Yes.  The Human Race. They can be found all over the world.\n\nThe concept of Race, as dividing humans into separate components, almost different species, came about just before and during the Victorian age, as a reason for subjecting 'natives' to European rule.\n\nWe now know, that Genetically, we are probably one of the least genetically diverse creatures on the earth. Either 10,000 years ago (provided you are not a creationist) we humans were reduced to 1,000 individuals in total.. Either that or 100,000 years ago, we were reduced to 100 individuals.  If a creationist, it is even worse, in as we would have started with 2 individuals, 6000 years ago.\n\nIn any case, there is less genetic difference between the entire human 'race' than there is between two dogs born of the same litter from the same dog and bitch.  There is more genetic diversity within one troop of chimpanzee than there is within the entire human population.\n\nThe entire concept of race, is completely and utterly wrong, unless you look at us as a whole.  The only separate races, have died out long ago.  The Neanderthals were one.  Peking man was another.  Their genetic legacy doesn't seem to exist in modern man.\n\nSo look around, and remember, the man or woman next to you, is closer to you, than any other creature on the earth.
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It's genetic. We are all related to the animals. Look at the chimp in the zoo. Look at the face and the ears.
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No. Humans and chimps are entirely reproductively isolated. Mating will not produce any kind of hybrid.
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The difference can be quantified by computing the similarities between the DNA sequences of homo sapiens and other animal species. He's right, the differences are very little. More than 98% of our DNA sequence is similar to the chimpanzee. The gorilla, orangutan and other old world apes are also extremely close. The new world apes are farther, then the monkies, and so on...
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Super species, hybrid of human and monkeys.
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Apes and humans had a common ancestor (which was what we could call ape-like).
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Many people disagree; some on religious grounds (against God's will), some on ethical/moral (somehow cloning is unnatural).  given that clones have same DNA they would have same immune system and thus be vulnerable to diseases that others might resist because of variations.
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First of all we have 23 pairs of chromosomes (or 46 chromosomes), and monkeys have  22 pairs of chromosomes. Big deal right? WRONG. When humans make gametes (sperm and egg) each gamete contains a one copy of the hosts DNA, therefore each gamate only contains 23 chromosomes. When the sperm reaches the egg they combine together (zygote) to from a cell that has 46 chromosomes. Any deviation from this number makes the an embryo inviable. ( we wont get into ploidy or trisomys here). Therefore if a human and an ape mated, the chromosome count coming from the human would be 23 and the money would be 22 making the chimera have 45 chromosomes. First of all essential genetic coding inforemation is lost. (AN ENTIRE CHROMOSOME IS MISSING), you have changed the specie. You have created an alleuploidy. (only viable with some plants). The chromosomes in each species are of different sizes. This totaly screws up the cellular functions and inhibits a proteins job. They would not be able to reproduce. And please do not get me started on Mullers moprhs in terms of loss of genetic information, regarding epistasis, incomplete dominance etc.... All you need to know is it would be inviable because the chromosomes are of different numbers, and the chromsome sizes are different.
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Despite the previous answer, there is no reason to think parthengenesis is impossible in humans.  All it would take is a mistake in meisosis where the nucleus did not duplicate and separate and you would have an egg identical to the mother ready for implantation.\n\nThe difficulties that affect cloning would not be an issue.
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>>>>>were we really monkeys years back.\n\nNo. Humans were never monkeys, nor were any of our ancestors monkeys.\n\nHumans and other apes share a common ancestor with the monkeys, but that ncestor was not itself a monkey.\n\n\n\n>>>if so these days why monkeys do not give birth to humans?\n\nI must be misundertanding that question. It can't be as silly as it sounds.\n\nMonkeys don't give birth to humans because they are monkeys. What other answer could there posibly be? The offspring of an organism inherit its genetic structure and hence its gross physical appearance. Monkeys are genetically monkeys hence their offspring are genetically monkeys.\n\n_____________\n>>>>chimps and humans ...would not be able to procreate...\n >>>>because of their different sets of chromosomes.\n\nThere  is no scientific basis to that claim whatsoever. Nobody knows whetherhumans and chimps are interfertile because nobody hs ever tried to find out.\n\nDiffering chromosome counts has never prevented two species reproducing. The world is full of animal species with differing chromosome counts that are perfectly interfertile and regularly interbreed.
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http://www.pathlights.com/ce_encyclopedia/15sim03.htm\n\nsmall monkey (Macaca rhesus): 42 \n\n48 chimp chromosomes.\n\nhttp://www.ridgecrest.ca.us/~do_while/sage/v7i4f.htm\n\nBut the human DNA sequence was just recently decoded. (It was published in the 16 February, 2001, issue of the journal Science.) Work on decoding the DNA sequence of chimps is just beginning. (See Monkey Business, in the Evolution in the News column in this issue.) How could they have been able to calculate the similarity of two sequences “decades” ago when neither had been decoded? How can they calculate it now when only one of them has been decoded? Did they just pull 98% out of the air?\n\nPerhaps they compared the 46 human chromosomes with the 48 chimp chromosomes. They could not possibly have done that and come up with a figure exceeding 97.8% Here’s why:\n\nLet’s compare the chromosomes of a boy and his mother. A boy gets 23 of his chromosomes from his mother and 23 from his father. Clearly, at least 23 of the chromosomes will be identical to his mother. Therefore, the similarity will be at least 50%.\n\nBut one of the chromosomes he gets from his father must be different because his mother has two X chromosomes (if she didn’t, she wouldn’t be female), and the son has one X chromosome and one Y chromosome (because he is male). Therefore, at most, 45 of the 46 (97.8%) chromosomes will be identical.\n\nSo, the boy’s Y chromosome is guaranteed to be different from his mother. What about the other 22 chromosomes he gets from his father? Societies generally try to discourage incestuous relationships, and scientists have discovered that there is a good reason for this. It reduces the chance that a baby will inherit the same defective gene from both mother and father. If the boy’s father and mother come from unrelated families, it is almost certain that most of those 22 chromosomes will have at least one different gene.\n\nSo, if you determine genetic similarity by counting identical chromosomes, the genetic similarity of a boy to his mother is likely to be closer to 50% than 100%. “Scientists” certainly could not have found that humans and chimpanzees are 98% alike by counting chromosomes.\n\nOf course we know that they didn’t count chromosomes when making the comparison. We only mention it to make the point that what you count will affect the result you get. You can use a method of counting that gives close to 50%, or you can use a different method that gives a much higher number........\n\n\nclick on link to read more.
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Humans and monkeys evolved from the same common ancestor.\nNow humans and monkeys are seperate species. \nComparisons between chimp and human DNA show the two species share 95 per cent of their genetic material.\nMonkeys aren't going to change into humans - this has nothing to do with Darwin's theory on human origins.