The Common Genetic Code

PBS Learning Media
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Keywords
Secret of Life The Immortal Thread Paul Nurse human species common ancestry evolution common ancestry lines of descent Genes Genetics Homology manipulation biotechnology insertion yeast medicine therapy cells division conservation protein amino acids DNA code mutation defect natural selection primates chimpanzee ape recombinant Human genome project divergence nucleotide protein sequence
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Science STEAM
Grade Levels
Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12
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The Common Genetic Code

Scientific researcher Paul Nurse demonstrates that a strain of yeast with a defective gene can use the human version of that gene to repair itself, in this video from Secret of Life: Immortal Thread. That humans not only share a common genetic code with other organisms, but that we actually share specific genes, is powerful evidence of our common ancestry.
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PBS Learning Media

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