Question

A new organism is discovered in the forests of Costa Rica. Scientists there determine that the polypeptide sequence of hemoglobin from the new organism has 72 amino acid differences from humans, 65 differences from a gibbon, 49 differences from a rat, and 5 differences from a frog. These data suggest that the new organism is more closely related to:_________a. gibbons than to ratsb. frogs than to humansc. rats than to frogs.d. humans than to rats.e. humans than to frogs

Answer 1

frogs than humans

Step-by-step explanation:

less difference in protein composition is proportional to genetic relatedness