AIIMS 2004
- Exam
- AIIMS
- Year
- 2004
- Subject
- Botany
- Chapter
- The Living World
AIIMS 2004 · Botany · The Living World
Assertion : Among the primates, chimpanzee is the closest relative...
Assertion : Among the primates, chimpanzee is the closest relative of the present day humans.
Reason : The banding pattern in the autosome numbers 3 and 6 of man and chimpanzee is remarkably similar.
Options
- AIf both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion
- BIf both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion
- CIf assertion is true but reason is false
- DIf both assertion and reason are false.
Correct answer
A. If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion
Step-by-step solution
Carolus Linnaeus called humans as Homo sapiens or wise men and placed them along with apes and monkeys. There are certain similarities between human and chimpanzee. These are -
(i) RNA content of diploid cells is similar
(ii) DNA matching shows that human similarity is 100 with chimpanzee and
(iii) banding pattern of chromosomes shows very little difference in chromosomes 3 and 6 between humans and chimpanzee. Thus it can be concluded that among the primates, chimpanzee is the closest relative of the present day humans.