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normdoering

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Posted: May 15 2006,12:15

Quote (jeannot @ May 15 2006,16:34)

Well, maybe there isn't any identical gene between humans and chimps.

That's possible, if there were, for example, 99% similarity in DNA sequences between two species and a gene were, for example, 1,000 base pairs long, then you'll average 10 mismatches per gene -- possibly making no difference in the amino acid resulting from it.

You expect natural selection to preserve the important patterns that a creature cannot survive and reproduce without and vestigial genes to be more mutated looking. But -- I don't think you can expect to find any strings over a thousand base pairs long anywhere to go unscathed as long as critical function is preserved..

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