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This question is about the genome:   The human and chimpanzee...

This question is about the genome: 

 The human and chimpanzee genomes are 96% identical at the DNA level.

1.  How many individual bases of the human genome differ from the corresponding positions of the chimp genome?

2. Assume that the human genome is 3% coding and contains about 20,000 genes, and that all of the sequence differences are independent, single-base changes (snps) distributed randomly throughout the genome. Estimate the fraction of genes mutated between humans and chimpanzees.

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