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Humans and tapeworms share DNA?
Category: Science > Biology Asked by: hindered-ga List Price: $5.00 |
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10 Sep 2006 18:40 PDT
Expires: 10 Oct 2006 18:40 PDT Question ID: 764005 |
Tapeworms and humans. What proportion of their DNA/genes do they have in common? They of course have a common ancestor. Please cite references. |
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Re: Humans and tapeworms share DNA?
From: hermannjens-ga on 10 Sep 2006 20:45 PDT |
a worm has 40% of the human genome. Dont know about tapeworms though and i cant remember the references since i learned this years ago. |
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Re: Humans and tapeworms share DNA?
From: pforcelli-ga on 11 Sep 2006 21:13 PDT |
It is a tough question to answer, but only because I can't find a complete genome for any species of tapeworm (all in the class Cestoda) in the NCBI database. That would be requisite information to answer such a question. |
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