I know that humans have 46 and chimps have 48. What about Gorillas and orangutans? Also if you know about old world or new world monkeys that would be helpful too!
2006-11-03 07:44:07 · 4 answers · asked by cpine505 3 in Social Science ➔ Anthropology
First of all, don't confuse apes with monkeys. Chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans are apes. They have no prehensil tail. Monkeys have tails.
Human beings have 23 pairs of chromosomes.
Apes have 24 pairs.
Taxonomists believe that a common ancestor of apes and humans had 24 pairs of chromosomes. As humans and apes evolved along different lines, the two smallest ape chromosomes were combined into a single, larger human chromosome.
Most ape and human chromosomes are identical. The 9th and the 14th ape chromosomes, when combined, are like a palindrome of the human 12th chromosome. That is, when viewed on a chromatic scale, if the ape chromosomes (9 + 14) are joined and flipped over, the result would look just like the human #12 chromosome.
That's what makes apes so genetically close to human beings, despite the difference in the number of chromosomes.
2006-11-03 11:49:38 · answer #1 · answered by Goethe 4 · 7⤊ 3⤋
Whats all the fuss a Hare has the same amount as a human!
Fruit fly 8 Guinea Pig 16
Dove 16 Snail 24
Earthworm 36 Tibetan fox 36
Cat 38 Pig 38
Mouse 40 Rat 42
Rabbit 44 Syrian hamster 44
Hare 46 Human 46
Gorilla 48 Sheep 54
Elephant 56 Cow 60
Donkey 62 Horse 64
Dog 78 Chicken 78
Carp 104 Butterflies 380
Chromosome numbers in some plants Plant Species #
Arabidopsis 10
Rye 14
Maize 20
Einkorn wheat 14
Pollard wheat 28
Bread wheat 42
Wild tobacco 24
Cultivated tobacco 48
Fern 1200
2006-11-04 01:06:35 · answer #2 · answered by battle-ax 6 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Chimpanzee Chromosome Number
2017-01-04 10:30:12 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Apes have 48 chromosomes.
2013-12-16 05:10:33 · answer #4 · answered by Zach Johnson 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋