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What percent of monkey β-globin amino acids are identical to the human sequence? (this is called the percent identity between the monkey and human β-globin sequences.)?

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It is 94.5% that the monkey β - globin amino acids are identical to the human sequence.  Gibbons are more closely related to humans than monkeys are because the gibbon β - globin sequence is a closer match with the βhuman sequence. The gibbons, monkeys, and human have what you called amino acid sequence of other proteins.
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