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Assertion : Among the primates, chimpanzee is the closest relative of the present day humans.
Reason : The banding pattern in the autosome numbers 3 and 6 of man and chimpanzee is remarkably similar.
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Reason : The banding pattern in the autosome numbers 3 and 6 of man and chimpanzee is remarkably similar.
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Carolus Linnaeus called humans as Homo sapiens or wise men and placed them along with apes and monkeys. There are certain similarities between human and chimpanzee. These are -
(i) RNA content of diploid cells is similar
(ii) DNA matching shows that human similarity is 100 $\%$ with chimpanzee and
(iii) banding pattern of chromosomes shows very little difference in chromosomes 3 and 6 between humans and chimpanzee. Thus it can be concluded that among the primates, chimpanzee is the closest relative of the present day humans.
(i) RNA content of diploid cells is similar
(ii) DNA matching shows that human similarity is 100 $\%$ with chimpanzee and
(iii) banding pattern of chromosomes shows very little difference in chromosomes 3 and 6 between humans and chimpanzee. Thus it can be concluded that among the primates, chimpanzee is the closest relative of the present day humans.
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