BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Fetus, Allometry, Craig Venter
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Looking at the number of genes in organisms, there demonstrates no clear correlation between biological complexity and genes within a dna. There is very little difference between human individuals within a species, craig venter and. Francis collins remarked that biological determinism is not what creates differences, rather the environmental factors influenced phenotype development. Scientists conclude it was wrong however, and there does not need to be many genes for organisms to differ. Differences between species, in both how they survive and so-on, is not correlated with the amount of differences observed. Frogs for example, differ very little in lifestyle, yet are any more years apart than. Discovered are a set of genes found in all animals, known as hox genes , which are very important in the function of and regulation of other genes. These genes being common in all animals, is purpoted to have arisen in a period of tremendous diversification.
