What kind of evidence suggested that man is more closely related with chimpanzee than with at her hominoid…

What kind of evidence suggested that man is more closely related with chimpanzee than with at her hominoid apes?
  1. evidence from DNA from sex chromosomes only
  2. comparison of chromosomes morphology only
  3. evidence from fossil remains, and the fossil mitochondrial DNA alone
  4. evidence from DNA extracted from sex chromosomes, autosomes and mitochondria.

Solution

Chimpanzee is more closely related to man than other hominoids. Chimpanzees are genetically closest to humans, and in fact, chimpanzees share about $98.6 \%$ of our DNA. Some similarities between human and chimpanzee in the chromosome banding pattern in sex chromosomes, autosomes and mitochondria. There is little difference in banding pattern in chromosomes 3 and 6 in human and chimpanzee. Serum test indicate maximum homology between human and chimpanzee. Related Theory Humans and monkeys are both primates. But humans are not descended from monkeys or any other primate living today. We do share a common ape ancestor with chimpanzees. It lived between 8 and 6 million years ago. They determined that chimpanzees are more closely related to humans than gorillas.

Asked in: NEET 2004

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