We are 85% genetically identical to mice.
Boys usually try to become scientists because they want to blow stuff up, or get bitten by a super radioactive monkey so they become a super radioactive battle monkey, but in fact, scientists are very careful in their experiments.
Butt eyeballs are a real thing, because of some terrible swiss scientists. I mean eyeballs on the butt, not butts on the eyeballs.
Birds lost their teeth as they evolved from raptors, which took a looooooooooong time.
Birds still have genes for teeth.
Mutant chicken embryos had TEETH.
There are weird mutant animals that you can make if you switch on the genes that weren't used by the guys.
Chickens can have fangs. So rooster teeth actually makes cents now! Rooster Teeth thought about everyting!
If we switch a gene, we might grow hair everywhere. I think. Whatever.
Genes are cool, because of the cool things we can do if we switch genes on and off.
It isn't fun to blow stuff up. There may be a bloodstain on the ceiling to symbolise the memorable moment when your intestines got blown all across the ceiling.
Or maybe if you become a radioactive battle human, there may be that blood stain on the wall that symbolises that memorable moment when you turned your colleague into minced homo sapien sapien.
More on evolutionary development. Us mixing genes has just been started lately, the event with the fly with eyeballs on it's butt occured in 1997.
We have lots of genes, and one of them is not having a thumb in the middle of your forehead or (oh god why) a butt on your forehead.
If we go deep into our genes, we even might be able to edit our babies to have 4 eyes, but I think you wouldn't consider doing that. If you are considering that, you are so cruel.
The event where chicks had teeth shows that birds still have some reptile genes in them. You could maybe make a chicken into a reptile! But I doubt it.
Genes are given instructions, and then they do what they're said to do.
Birds lost teeth about 60,000 years ago, just to pop back up again with the mutant chicks with teeth incident.
Hox genes kick in after the embryo is more developed, and it gives instructions on where to put the body parts.
Most regulatory genes are inherited.
There only put regulatory genes in the butt of the eyeball butt fly, so they only evolved fly eyeballs.
Hox stands for Homeobox. I think.
We are all built using the same blueprint.
Evolution is not mutations, it's just genes being switched on and off.
All animals are way more similar than we think they are.
We are extremely similar to a chimp, but not exactly the same.
If you are a scientist that is an ace in evolutionary development, you might be able to make a fly with eyeballs on it's butt, or a chicken with teeth. BUT NO BATTLE MONKEYS.
Hox genes only activate genes. Other genes make the body parts.
Gene Products are already sitting in the egg before it's fertilized.
Our Hox gene instructions are similar to lots of other Hox gene instructions for other mammals.
Birds are similar to velicoraptors, but as you may have seen, birds don't have teeth, do they? No they don't. So they still have the teeth gene.
If you find a blind animal embryo, and switch on the gene that gives it eyes, it might get eyes. Best done with the blind cave fish.
No genes are activated until they are told when to activate it.
Our genetic makeup is very similar to our mammal counterparts, including dogs, cats, mice, etc.
All animals are way more similar than we think they are.
If a chimp is wearing a fedora, you might briefly think it is a human, or not even notice it at all.
The short answer of how we are similar to a mouse is Developmental Regulatory Genes.
All vertebrates have similar genes, like that we have a backbone, mouths, stuff like that.
Hox genes make a huge effect on how the animal will look.
It may be possible to turn a reptile into some kind of bird, but that might not be possible because the bird stage of evolution was after the reptile stage.
Evolution takes place over a long time.
These genes being switched on and off explains how animals evolve, because animals had too little time to evolve like they should have.
Mammals have more relations to each other than vertebrates, but we still are pretty similar.
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