Ninety-six percent of the base-pair sequences in chimps and humans are the same. This finding indicates that:

A. 96% of the genes in humans have identical counterparts in chimps.
B. humans are more closely related to chimps than to any other species on earth.
C. 4% of the DNA we carry contains mutations.
D. 96% of the proteins produced by chimps are identical to the proteins produced by humans.


Answer: B. humans are more closely related to chimps than to any other species on earth.

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