A group in my MIS class presented a project that they were developing a dating app for my school. They said something like 75% of students at Belmont are single. I'm calling bullshit on that stat
Comparing the chromosome pairs is really one of the most compelling scientific arguments supporting this science. Humans have 23 chromosome pairs, and Orangutans have 24. Of these chromosome pairs, 22 of them between the two species are 100% identical. There is literally no difference between them. And the difference between that 1 chromosome in humans (#2 if I recall correctly) and 2 chromosomes in the Orangutan (#12 and #13 if I remember correctly), is #12 and #13 were merged together to create Human #2.
Conceptually speaking it is very helpful to think of a chromosome as a song. It is very unique and any person who listened to that music would recognize it's melody. Now What happens if you were to take two songs and make a new song by taking interleaving them one note at a time. At first you would be like "Well this is a unique song and different from other stuff I've heard" but after studying it a while you might realize that every odd note of the song is "enter sandman" and every even note is "november rain". So when you made that realization, would your natural conclusion be "this person wrote a very unique song and amazingly was like enter standman and november rain" OR would you say "Hey this bastard just ripped off these two songs and merged them together"??? This analogy is 100% accurate to where we are today in genetic science. And to genetic scientist it's more of a compelling argument then my two songs analogy.
Finally I just want to add that fusion of chromosomes is well documented in other species, such as Mus
musculus on the island of Madeira, where different populations of the
same species even have different chromosomes that are fused!
Hey I don't use them, I'm just specifying why hus post had them highlighted. For their use though, the word fits. I mean pound tags would work too I guess.
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Conceptually speaking it is very helpful to think of a chromosome as a song. It is very unique and any person who listened to that music would recognize it's melody. Now What happens if you were to take two songs and make a new song by taking interleaving them one note at a time. At first you would be like "Well this is a unique song and different from other stuff I've heard" but after studying it a while you might realize that every odd note of the song is "enter sandman" and every even note is "november rain". So when you made that realization, would your natural conclusion be "this person wrote a very unique song and amazingly was like enter standman and november rain" OR would you say "Hey this bastard just ripped off these two songs and merged them together"??? This analogy is 100% accurate to where we are today in genetic science. And to genetic scientist it's more of a compelling argument then my two songs analogy.
Finally I just want to add that fusion of chromosomes is well documented in other species, such as Mus musculus on the island of Madeira, where different populations of the same species even have different chromosomes that are fused!
gF>2>the rest