ANTH 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Noncoding Dna, Base Pair, Cytosine
13 Jun 2016
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Great amount of human genetic diversity and variety in the world. In addition to obvious differences in phenotype. Also not-so-obvious differences that manifest through behaviour, language, culture, health. We diverged from chimps - 6 million years ago. 99% genetic data is similar to them; as similar as a horse to a zebra. Morphology - behaviour is always suspicion of closeness. Now, we can use sequence of genomes to detect all genetic information on an organism. Arrangements and organization of base pairs is the code that determines genes. Mutation is basically a mistake in the base pair sequence. In every strand of dna, there are only 30k genes. Basically, 2-3% of dna strand has genetic material on it. Comparing out genomes to others is simple; just point out where they differ. We"re most distantly related to orangutans; 3% similar that we"re lacking. But we look and behave so differently; yet our genomes are so similar.
