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RE: Better Functional Understanding From Studying Human Vs Neanderthal Enzymes
The Neanderthal part left me speechless... So, we have access to their genome, don't we. That sounds pretty cool to me!
PS: I think there are more fancy words in your fields than in mine ;)
Their complete genome yes. It's not all that different from ours. But then we share 50% sequence homology with a banana so ... All life is surprisingly similar.
My field is specifically the study of enzyme function. All of the genetics is the level above me primarily :)
All of the fancy words, someone else gets to do those studies and reconstructions... :(
I guess what matters is not the common part but the difference, isn't it?
Correct