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From: loren@tristan.llnl.gov (Loren Petrich)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Man vs Woman vs Chimp DNA Percentages
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Date: 17 Sep 90 21:35:07 GMT
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In article <1803@anaxagoras.ils.nwu.edu> barger@ils.nwu.edu (Jorn Barger) writes:
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>Maybe it's biological folklore, but I often see the similarity of human 
>and chimp DNA cited as 99%.  Given the X and Y chromosome thing, aren't 
>men and women more dissimilar than that?  Am I therefore more closely 
>related to male chimps than to female humans???

	The similarity figure is for genes that we and the chimps have
in common. Human X and Y may be different, but human X's and chimp X's
must certainly be very close, as must human Y's and chimp Y's.

	Why not try to find out about this subject from some
geneticist?


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