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Author | Topic: Genetics question (Re: Comparison of Human and Ape Genomes) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Black Member (Idle past 5183 days) Posts: 77 Joined: |
Hey,
I was wondering something. What are the actual genetic differences between humans and apes. Anyone have info on this? Something else: do we (humans) have any proteins that apes don't have? Thx!
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Trixie Member (Idle past 3706 days) Posts: 1011 From: Edinburgh Joined: |
Both the human genome and that of Pan troglodytes have been completely sequenced and the sequences are available to everyone. At the moment comparisons of the two are ongoing and the findings should be published in the next couple of months or so.
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Coragyps Member (Idle past 734 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined: |
do we (humans) have any proteins that apes don't have?
Surely there are a few here and there.... The significant biochemical difference that I'm aware of between us is the exact sialic acid that we have on the outsides of our cells. But they're amino sugars, not proteins.
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Adminnemooseus Administrator Posts: 3974 Joined: |
I've added the "(Re: Comparison of Human and Ape Genomes)" part to the title.
Not to pick on "Black", but the title should have been something like "Comparison of Human and Ape Genomes" in the first place. People, lets really try to get quality titles on your topics. Little testy, but not cranky Adminnemooseus
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Adminnemooseus Administrator Posts: 3974 Joined: |
Thread moved here from the Evolution forum.
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1405 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
I thought this had already been done. Is this a second study to confirm previous result or go into more detail?
Chimps Belong on Human Branch of Family Tree, Study SaysJohn Pickrell in England for National Geographic News May 20, 2003 A new report argues that chimpanzees are so closely related to humans that they should be included in our branch of the tree of life. Chimpanzees and other apes have historically been separated from humans in classification schemes, with humans deemed the only living members of the hominid family of species. Now, biologists at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan, provide new genetic evidence that lineages of chimps (currently Pan troglodytes) and humans (Homo sapiens) diverged so recently that chimps should be reclassed as Homo troglodytes. The move would make chimps full members of our genus Homo, along with Neandertals, and all other human-like fossil species. "We humans appear as only slightly remodeled chimpanzee-like apes," says the study. Goodman and colleagues used computer methods to analyze the amount of similarity between 97 important human and chimp genes and as many of the same gene sequences as are currently available for less-studied gorillas, orangutans, and Old World monkeys. The results suggested that within important sequence stretches of these functionally significant genes, humans and chimps share 99.4 percent identity. My understanding is that Bonobos ("pygmy chimps" currently Pan paniscus) are closer than chimps (but that a lot of the studies seem to confuse the two). we are limited in our ability to understand by our ability to understand RebelAAmerican.Zen[Deist
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Trixie Member (Idle past 3706 days) Posts: 1011 From: Edinburgh Joined: |
Pan troglodytes genome was released on 10th December 2003. See
http://www.nhgri.nih.gov/11509418
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1405 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
thanks. what about Pan paniscus?
Apparently the Wayne State University School of Medicine was not using complete information then (or did they have inside access?). we are limited in our ability to understand by our ability to understand RebelAAmerican.Zen[Deist
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judge Member (Idle past 6443 days) Posts: 216 From: australia Joined: |
Surely there are a few here and there.... The significant biochemical difference that I'm aware of between us is the exact sialic acid that we have on the outsides of our cells. But they're amino sugars, not proteins. In what way is this different?
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Coragyps Member (Idle past 734 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined: |
The sialic acids apparently have a lot to do with exactly what molecules will bind to cell surfaces - but we better get a biochemist in here before I step off into deep water.....
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Trixie Member (Idle past 3706 days) Posts: 1011 From: Edinburgh Joined: |
Don't think the whole genome has been sequenced since there would have been a fanfare of trumpets etc. There are sequences of bits and pieces available - you can do a search under the species name at
Search NCBI databases - NLM Happy hunting!! Edited to add - the previous work only looked at 97 genes which had been sequenced. Now we have the complete genome of both humans and chimps comparisons can be made using not just important genes, but also non-coding regions which are more likely to vary. This will give a better overall picture of the relatedness. [This message has been edited by Trixie, 04-03-2004]
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1405 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
thanks, trixie, I will.
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1405 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
Looks like they have two genome studies
one simian virusNCBI/sutils101 - WWW Error 404 Diagnostic one mitochondrialNCBI/sutils101 - WWW Error 404 Diagnostic we are limited in our ability to understand by our ability to understand RebelAAmerican.Zen[Deist
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Mike Inactive Member |
Abby,
Just to address a couple of points: There are no plans to completely sequence the bonobo genome.Like Trixie said, the Wayne State study looked at a set of genes, not the whole genome. An even larger study was published in Science last fall looking at about 7,000 genes between humans and chimps and mice. Bonobos are not more similar to humans, nor more closely related to us, than common chimps. It was suggested at one point that in some ways bonobos may look more like the last common ancestor of humans/chimps/bonobos than do common chimps. In other words, since these three species had a commmon ancestor humans have changed a lot, chimps somewhat, and bonobos a bit less so. But this was meant to be a generalization, not to be taken too seriously. Finally, and back to the original question, there are undoubtedly thousands of genetic differences between humans and chimps. We just haven't found very many yet; or, more correctly, haven't figured out which of the small changes mean anything and which don't. Most of these will not be proteins that we have and chimps don't, but our proteins will be slightly different, or how we use those proteins may differ. Mike
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catapam Inactive Member |
Hi!
I’m from Romania and I have a question for you. Recently because of genetics and molecular biology, the scientist declare that Neanderthal Man is a different species from Homo sapiens sapiens (descendents of modern humans).Evidence discover by archeologists show that Neanderthal man can handle fire, create and use tools, create clothes, create colored paintings on the walls of caves, buried their dead. Even we reject genetics, only judging after the skulls or bones found by archeologists, we must admit that they look highly different from humans. So we must conclude that they are an intelligent species different from humans. Now, I want to ask you, in Creation theory, who create those intelligent species?
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