3 ms·
Why do they wonder so much after that tasmanian devil's cancer? There you have a contagious disease that's not bacteria or virus but canine. There's also a cul
by guard-of-terra 11y ago
Why do they wonder so much after that tasmanian devil's cancer? There you have a contagious disease that's not bacteria or virus but canine.
There's also a culture of some woman's cells that is used for I don't remember what. Makes it a new genus of Homo!
Or not. I think we can conclude that genetic similarity is not everything and such derivates should be considered separatrely.
- Retric 11y agoHela cells are don't actually closely match human cells any more. Genetically chimps are much closer to humans than that cell line. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/famous-hela-human-cell-line-gets-its-dna-sequenced/ http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/famous-hela-human-... "Steinmetz’s team confirmed that HeLa cells contain one extra version of most chromosomes, with up to five copies of some. Many genes were duplicated even more extensively, with four, five or six copies sometimes present, instead of the usual two. Furthermore, large segments of chromosome 11 and several other chromosomes were reshuffled like a deck of cards, drastically altering the arrangement of the genes"