Blog Day 9

Today, we covered DNA aspect of evolution. We divided up into small groups and worked on different projects. James and I found the similarities between monkeys, gorillas, and humans by creating DNA strands for each like these below:

Here's what the chimpanzee DNA strand looks like:

And the positioning:

Here is the positioning for the gorilla DNA strand:

And the positioning for the human:

Upon analyzing the strands, we found the chimpanzee and the human strand to be very closely related. Upon studying the gorilla strand, we found it very close to the common ancestor strand:

Thus, we came up with this common descent model:

This model shows gorillas, chimps, and humans all having a common ancestor, chimps and humans having a common ancestor, and gorillas being the closest to the common ancestor that they all share.