Ask a Geneticist- Science

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A few interesting facts I learned about this article is that chimps and humans start out with almost the same chromosomes. Also, until I read this article I did not know that chimps and humans also have the same number of genes. The fact that their genomes that code for genes only differ by 1.2% blows my mind. I have always known that chimps are mammals so it shouldn't have surprised me but somehow it did. The thing that didn't surprise me but I did not know was that humans and chimps are 98.8% the same! So basically we are like chimps. That's pretty cool. I also did not know that the way our human bodies and chimps bodies produce protein are only 3% different. These facts tell me that chimps are very much like humans. This tells me that my 46 chromosomes and chimps 48 chromosomes are very alike only differed by 1.2% Plus, I did not know that one of the human chromosomes is really made up of 2 of the chimp chromosomes (or vice versa). I have learned so many facts that just amazes my mind.
Therefore, I have learned many facts from this interesting article by Flo Pauli. All the mind blowing facts that I have learned about how humans have 46 chromosome and chimps have 48 chromosome and if chimps have more or less genes than us are listed above. This article taught me new facts about chromosome and genes especially between chimps and humans.