DNA Similarities

Articles About DNA Similarities

• Finding Adam in the Genome: A BioLogos cover-up?

  

  Aug. 17, 2017 from A Response to Adam and the Genome

  Venema took Tomkins’ claims to task on the BioLogos website regarding the supposed remnants of an egg-laying gene (vitellogenin) in human DNA.

• Finding Adam in the Genome: Does BioLogos Have Even More Egg on Its Face?

  

  Aug. 10, 2017 from A Response to Adam and the Genome

  BioLogos has engaged in systematic scientific error on one of their “evidences” for evolution, and they have misrepresented the arguments for several years.

• Magazine Department Article

  The Untold Story Behind DNA Similarity

  

  April 23, 2017 from Answers Magazine

  When you hear stories about the astonishing similarity between human and chimp DNA, there’s something they’re not telling you . . .

• In-Depth Article

  Seventy Percent of Human Genes Traced Back to Acorn Worm?

  

  Jan. 7, 2016 from Answers in Depth

  Some think acorn worms, virtually unchanged since the Cambrian explosion, represent an evolutionary link between invertebrates and humans.

• In-Depth Article

  Differences Between Chimp and Human DNA Recalculated

  Sept. 17, 2015 from Answers in Depth

  Some assert that humans and chimpanzees are only 1 to 2% different, but careful re-tallying suggests there is a gigantic genetic gap between the two species.

• In-Depth Article

  Mouse Memory Enhanced By Humanized “Language Gene”

  Sept. 25, 2014 from Answers in Depth

  With mice and men, practice makes perfect, but a mouse with a man’s FOXp2 gene achieves perfection faster.

• Semi-Technical In-Depth Article

  Chromosome Tales and the Importance of a Biblical Worldview

  June 18, 2014 from Answers in Depth

  When evidence is interpreted in a particular worldview, it can sound very convincing that the evidence supports that worldview.

• Book Chapter

  What About the Similarity Between Human and Chimp DNA?

  Jan. 14, 2014 from The New Answers Book 3

  DNA similarity could easily be explained as a result of a common Creator.

• Chimp-Human DNA Similarity: What Does It Really Mean?

  June 3, 2013 from News to Know

  The Human Genome Project, supposedly disproved the possibility of all humans being descended from one man and woman. But what does the science really show?

• Denisovan Human Genome Sequenced

  Jan. 5, 2013 from News to Know

  Revolutionary DNA sequencing technique said to be “a powerful new tool to fish for genes that have recently evolved.”

• Easy-Going Ape Joins Genome Club

  June 16, 2012 from News to Know

  Scientists recently analyzed the bonobo ape's genome.

• Turtles Still Baffle Evolutionists

  July 23, 2011

  Turtles in search of their long lost ancestor discover genes trump holes in the head.

• DNA We're Missing Makes Us Human

  March 12, 2011 from News to Know

  No one, not even evolutionists, disputes that humans have crossed a threshold that sets us apart from the rest of the animal kingdom—even chimpanzees, our “close evolutionary relatives.” But according to new research, it’s actually the genes we don’t have that sets us apart.

• Odd Non-Man Out

  Jan. 29, 2011 from News to Know

  When considered alongside humans and chimps, the orangutan is the genomic “odd man out.” Is that because it hasn’t evolved as quickly?

• Genetic Connections with Chimpanzees

  Dec. 4, 2010

  Evolutionists often emphasize our genetic similarity to chimpanzees, but our genetic connections don’t end there.

• Magazine Article

  DNA—The Language of Life

  

  Nov. 21, 2010 from Answers Magazine

  DNA resembles a language in many uncanny ways.

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• Trace Your Family History through DNA Testing

  Oct. 10, 2010

  According to American Demographics, 113 million Americans have begun to trace their roots.

• Magazine Department Article

  The Question of Y

  

  July 1, 2010 from Answers Magazine

  We’ve all heard that humans and chimps share up to 98% of their DNA. But new studies are accentuating the differences between humans and chimps.

• Magazine Department Article

  Time Keeps on Slipping

  Sept. 29, 2008 from Answers Magazine

  Twice in the past five years, our alleged ancestry with apes has made the cover of Time magazine.

• Feedback Article

  A Simple Answer

  Sept. 19, 2008 from Feedback

  Can a simple “yes or no” answer be adequate for a question about Adam and Eve’s genetic code and today’s human traits?

• Magazine Department Article

  If Human and Chimp DNA Are So Similar, Why Are There So Many Physical and Mental Differences Between Them?

  Jan. 21, 2008 from Answers Magazine

  It seems that if a protein performs a certain function in one organism, then that same protein should perform the same function in a variety of organisms.

• Semi-Technical In-Depth Article

  A Tale of Two Chromosomes

  Nov. 14, 2007 from Answers in Depth

  There are many anatomical similarities between humans and apes. Our chromosomes are similar as well. But do human chromosomes hint of chimp ancestry?

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• More Different Than We Thought

  Oct. 27, 2007 from News to Know

  Scientists publishing in the journal Genetics last week have showed that “[m]any more genes separate humans from chimpanzees than scientists believed.”

• Magazine Department Article

  The Parade of Chimps

  Oct. 1, 2007 from Answers Magazine

  The chimp and human genome have more differences than previously thought.

• Magazine Department Article

  Group Think

  Oct. 1, 2007 from Answers Magazine

  All humans today can be traced back to the same small group of people.

• Chimp Filing for Person-hood

  Sept. 29, 2007 from News to Know

  His name notwithstanding, the current legal case for the personhood of Mr. Matthew Hiasl Pan (a chimp) is in jeopardy, reports the Associated Press from Vienna, Austria.

• Not Only How Much, But Also How Fast: Gene Sequences

  Aug. 18, 2007

  The inadequacy of similar “genetic potential” in explaining organisms’ similarity is perhaps most notable in comparisons of chimps and humans.

• Sponge Synapses

  June 9, 2007

  Sponge nerve system genes correlate with human nervous system genes by 25%.

• All About the Differences

  April 21, 2007 from News to Know

  A sensational headline ran across the science media this week: “Chimps More Evolved than Humans.”

• The Trouble with Sequencing

  Nov. 22, 2006

  The news has been buzzing lately about two recent papers that are reporting the sequencing of up to one million bases of the Neanderthal genome.

• Visiting the Family?

  

  Sept. 5, 2006, pp. 54–55

  I have a soft spot for Twycross Zoo. It is a favourite with my children and me, since it is only a 30-minute drive from our house in the west of Leicestershire.

• The Differences Make the Difference

  March 20, 2006

  While there is much similarity in DNA sequences and gene expression among them, there are also important differences. In the case examined, as in other cases, the differences make the difference.

• Evolution: Fact or Fiction?

  Feb. 2, 2006

  In the current controversies about teaching about the origin of life in public schools, there is a general misunderstanding of the differences between “origin science” and “operation science."

• Chimp Genome Sequence Very Different from Man

  Sept. 5, 2005

  Last week, in a special issue of Nature devoted to chimpanzees, researchers report the initial sequence of the chimpanzee genome.

• Technical Research Paper

  Human/Chimp DNA Similarity Continues to Decrease: Counting Indels

  Aug. 1, 2004, pp. 37–40

  It is conventionally held that humans and chimps differ only very slightly in their DNA. However, new evidence suggests that the difference might be much more drastic.

• Apes Are Our Brothers—Just Ask the Post Office

  April 7, 2003

  'Do you realise our DNA is 98.5% identical?’ These are the words in an advertisement for the first-class stamp in a new series called ‘The secret of life,’ released by Royal Mail (UK).

• Semi-Technical Research Paper

  Greater Than 98% Chimp/Human DNA Similarity? Not Any More.

  April 1, 2003, pp. 8–10

  A new report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that the common value of >98% similarity of DNA between chimp and humans is incorrect.

• Technical Research Paper

  Are Pseudogenes ‘Shared Mistakes’ Between Primate Genomes?

  Dec. 1, 2000, pp. 55–71

  The claim that pseudogenes and their respective variations are shared between primates in a nested hierarchy, and can only be explained through common evolutionary descent, is found wanting.