THE MOLECULAR BASIS OF INHERITANCE
DNA MAKES RNA MAKES PROTEIN
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Humans evolved from gorillas
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Gorillas and humans diverged from a common ancestor.
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As gorillas evolve, they will become more similar to humans
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Gorillas and humans are too different for meaningful genetic comparisons.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Expert-Verified Answer. The evidence “about 96% of the information in human DNA is found in gorilla DNA” supports that the gorillas and humans emerged from a common ancestor.
Detailed explanation-2: -The genomes of all three species are, in any case, highly similar: humans and chimpanzees share more than 98% of their genes, while humans and gorillas share more than 96%. The genetic sequence was taken from a female western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) named Kamilah and published in Nature.
Detailed explanation-3: -The gorilla–human last common ancestor (GHLCA, GLCA, or G/H LCA) is the last species that the tribes Hominini and Gorillini (i.e. the chimpanzee–human last common ancestor on one hand and gorillas on the other) share as a common ancestor.
Detailed explanation-4: -Initial comparisons confirm that chimpanzees are our closest relatives, sharing 99% of our DNA. Gorillas come a close second with 98%, and orangutans third with a 97% share. That reflects the evolutionary history of apes.
Detailed explanation-5: -"The big picture is that we’re perhaps 98 percent identical in our sequences to gorillas. So that means most of our genes are very similar, or even identical to, the gorilla version of the same gene, ” said Chris Tyler-Smith, a geneticist at Wellcome Trust.