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From: kja@cbnewsd.att.com (krista.j.anderson)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Man vs Woman vs Chimp DNA Percentages
Message-ID: <1990Sep21.195915.1913@cbnewsd.att.com>
Date: 21 Sep 90 19:59:15 GMT
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In article <999@massey.ac.nz>, AChamove@massey.ac.nz (A.S. Chamove) writes:
> Over the past few years, there has been a lot of debate on the following
> question: 
> If chimps and humans are so close genetically, then why can we not make
> hybrids?  Of course a lot of people say that we can and could.  Others
> say that there are incompatibilites, but no one I have encountered has
> been able to specify what those incompatibilites are. Can you?

There's a different number of chromosomes.  We have 46; I think
chimps have 48, but it might be 44.  In one species a chunk of one
chromosome broke off and rejoined a different chromosome.  Sorry I
don't have details.
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Krista A.
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