GE CLST M71CW Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Spindle Apparatus

• School: UCLA
• Department: General Education Clusters
• Course: GE CLST M71CW
• Professor: Rensel, M.A.; Le Goff, A.G.; Panofsky, A.L.

Document Summary

Svante p bo: dna clues to our inner neanderthal. Outside africa, fewer variations in the genome. There is not a single position where say all africans have a certain letter and everyone has another. The difference in sequence of 100%- is 0 out of 186 and 95%- is 12 out of 186. Skin color, hair etc not single gene but combination. Factors like how we metabolize food etc also affect phenotypic expression. Parts of our body that directly interact with the environment show differences amongst people in different environments. But things like heart brain etc, you cannot determine where it came from. Then neanderthals: there is no statistical difference between one african and. But in europe and china, there"s more similarity. In order to understand our definition as a species, we should look at neanderthals. 50x neanderthal genome is possible for even small bones. It is fascinating to ask what we have not understood yet.