Question

A new organism is discovered in the forests of costa rica. scientists there determine that the polypeptide sequence of hemoglobin from the new organism has 72 amino acid differences from humans, 65 differences from a gibbon, 49 differences from a rat, and 5 differences from a frog. these data suggest that the new organism is more closely related to

Answer 1

Answer: Frog

Explanation: It is the frog because the less differences there are, the more closely related it is to the organism.

Answer 2

frog

Step-by-step explanation:

It is given in the question that the new organism that has been discovered at Costa Rica has 5 differences from a frog. So the new organism is suggested to have been closely related to the frog species because among the other species ( that is humans, gibbons, rat ), the new organisms shows very less differences with the frog species. So it is concluded that the frog species and the new organisms are closely related.