Today I learned on Nostr: TIL that great apes have 24 pairs of chromosomes while humans have 23 pairs because 2 ...

TIL that great apes have 24 pairs of chromosomes while humans have 23 pairs because 2 ape chromosomes fused into 1 human chromosome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimpanzee_genome_project
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1scn7gc/til_that_great_apes_have_24_pairs_of_chromosomes/