Our Place in the Tree of Life

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The amount of precisely similar DNA two species share in their genomes hints at how evolutionarily similar the two are. Parts of the genome that are highly conserved between widely differing organisms suggests that those particular instructions are vital to life.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_genomics - Wikipedia article on comparative genomics

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