The human body is unique and not fully understood. Scientists constantly tell something new about our body, and some facts are simply incredible. For a long time, supporters of the theory of evolution believed that the DNA of humans and monkeys differ by only one percent. But after the tests, it turned out that this figure is higher - five percent. Recently, scientists have been actively searching for animals and plants similar in genotype; they even compared DTCs of banana and humans. The research results were unexpected.
We are who we are
Our body is made up of three billion genetic blocks. It is they who make us who we are. From this many base pairs, a small grain makes each person unique and 99.9% genetically close to each other.
Not so long ago, the scientist R. Sabatini showed how many pages are occupied by the decrypted human genetic code - 262 thousand pages have turned out. And only about five hundred pages contain a unique code.
Information carrier or DNA encryption
Not so long ago, scientists shocked the world with the news that the DNA of a banana and a human are similar, but we see that there is no similarity between us. Why is that?
DNA is a macromolecule that is responsible for the preservation and transmission to generations of hereditary information. It can contain up to 80 thousand genes. Moreover, the transfer of information can manifest itself in the form of similarities in appearance, psychologically, or have no analogies at all, but this phenomenon is rarely observed.
The transmitted information in the cell is a unique combination of some external signs, can carry general development patterns, the principles of the body.
DNA is a carrier of information that can be changed during evolution. Observing the structure, preservation of information, the possibility of transferring information from one generation to another, scientists have noticed phasing, although in some cases such changes occur as a leap.
Species gradually change, the qualities used are strengthened, and the less used ones atrophy and completely disappear with time.
All people are bananas
A cell is a large biostructure. The similarity of banana and human DNA changes the worldview, because our cells and cyto banana are 50% similar. Such knowledge allows scientists to develop new drugs. For example, you can create plants that will produce medical proteins - the so-called "edible" vaccines. For example, one could develop carrots that work like a vaccine that protects against flu or other diseases.
Another area of knowledge gained about the similarity of human and banana DNA, work with other plants, allows us to develop gentle environmental technologies. Now scientists can influence the genetic structure of plants by embedding the genes of animals, people, where they function quite normally. After all, everything in the world is built on the same principle: DKN-RNA protein.
The human body is a real mystery
The interest of scientists is caused not only by the fact that the DNA of a banana and a human coincides, but also other incredible facts. For instance:
- If you unwind all the blood vessels of the human body, then you can wrap the Earth twice with them. The length of all vessels is about a hundred thousand kilometers. Moreover, for every kilogram of weight, up to ten kilometers of vessels are formed.
- Through the body, blood runs a distance of 20 thousand kilometers.
- Nerve impulses run through the body at a speed of over 410 kilometers per hour.
- Every second, the body forms about 20 million new cells, with 90 percent of them being cells of non-human origin.
- There is gold in human blood, but this does not mean that we are “golden”. To get eight grams of precious metal, the blood of forty people is needed.
- Crying helps relieve stress, sadness, anger, but not every type of tear is the same in structure. Scientists conducted a study of tears and came to the conclusion that the tears of grief, joy and other types have a different structure.
The recent discovery of scientists was shocking. They found that the DNA of human and banana match 50 percent. For comparison: with a monkey, our DNA matches only 95%. The flora and fauna in the process of evolution diverged one and a half billion years ago, but so far many genes are similar to each other. So, there is a similarity of human DNA and banana, and chimpanzees.
Scientists from Cambridge conducted a series of tests to detect similar to human species of animals. As a result of the checks, the first place in similarity to us is occupied by the chicken, and the second by the crocodile.
We look like chimpanzees
The extent to which human and banana DNA matches is surprising. No less surprising is the proof that we and chimpanzees are not as close as was previously thought. There was a time when scientists said that we and the monkeys looked like 99%, but the American scientist Roy Britten proved that this information is incorrect, and our similarity is less - 95%. Britten compared a base pair of strands of human DNA and chimpanzees. As a result of research, he was able to discover elements that are not similar. The biologist tried to find an explanation for his discovery in terms of evolution, but could not. The theory of evolution is generally in great doubt, since neither the remains of living organisms, nor changes in species have been detected. As shown by excavations of the earth's layers, each species appeared suddenly, and in the form in which it exists, there are no “forefathers” that would mutate during evolution.
DNA carries planet Earth code
There is much in common between man and other living organisms on our planet. For example, a person has 70% similarity to worms in DNA. But this does not mean that we are worms, or that we are descended from them. When studying genes, no evolution is visible, but a natural pattern is visible. The bodies of animals, plants consist of the same atoms, we breathe the same air, eat the same food in structure. Thus, humans and other representatives of the fauna, some representatives of the flora possess similar genetic codes, proteins. But this does not mean that all living things, plants on our planet have the same roots and changed during evolution. Indeed, in this case, there should not have remained other species, all animals and plants with a similar code should have been the same.