A new solar system 2,000 light years from Earth
Friday, February 4, 2011
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The orangutan genome is 97% identical to that of humans, indicating that among the great apes and sequenced, is the most genetically distinct humans. An international team of scientists, with English participation, has sequenced the DNA of the Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii). The subsequent sequencing of five other orangutans in Sumatra and Borneo five (Pongo pygmaeus) has shed light on the evolution of great apes and demonstrates the great genetic diversity of these species.
The identification of more than 3,000 million base pairs that constitute the genome of the orangutan is in addition to the human and chimpanzee genomes, sequenced previously and 99% identical, and it provides a more accurate picture of the process evolution that led to the emergence of human being. "In comparison, chimpanzees and humans have experienced large-scale structural rearrangements in their genomes that may have hastened their evolution."
The work indicates that the two species diverged evolutionarily 400,000 years ago, a more recent date than estimated so far.
For Alba Pinto and Jeni Arroyo.
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