Genome FIRST ENTRY: SPECIES

 Around the twentieth century, it was thought that there was 24 chromosomes in the human genome. Apes and gorillas are very similar to humans, they have 24 chromosomes while we have 23. It is because the human chromosome number 2 is a slightly different version of two ape chromosomes, it is more modified. Humans have over 300 million tons of biomass and we have colonized almost every habitat possible. Humans and chimps are 98% genetically the same. At one point in the population of the chimps the population was split. One of the populations developed a genetic mutation that prevented the two populations from breeding and that formed a new species known as the human species. Eventually the human population developed different methods of adaptations and breeding, eventually seperating us from the two. The difference between species is in the genes and they do play a big part.