Which of the following statements about what we have learned by comparing the mo

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Which of the following statements about what we have learned by comparing the modern-day human genome to other genomes is true?

A. Modern humans whose ancestors come from Europe or Asia share up to 4 percent of their genome with Neanderthals.

B. Accelerated changes, which were found when comparing the human genome to other mammalian genomes, were not found when comparing the modern-day human genome to the Neanderthal genome.

C. The human genome is far more gene-dense than the yeast genome.

D. In syntenic regions of the human and mouse genomes, both gene order and the placements of more than 95% of the mobile genetic elements are

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A. Modern humans whose ancestors came from Europe or Asia share up to 4% of their genome with Neanderthals.

The Neanderthals  (named after the Neandertal area) were a species of humans in the genus Homo that became extinct between 41,000 and 39,000 years ago. Modern humans are most closely related to them. According to a report published in Science magazine (Green et al., 2010) it was reported that modern humans from Africa and Eurasia shared about 1-4% of their genomes with the Neanderthals.

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