How are human beings and chimpanzees phylogenetically related?

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anonymous · Answer

The genome of humans and chimps are 96-98% similar
The amount of chimp DNA is 12% larger than what it is in humans.
The 2–4% difference in the genomes is actually millions and millions of bases (individual components of DNA).
In many areas of the DNA sequence, major “rearrangements” seem apparent. These account for perhaps 4–10% dissimilarity between humans and chimps.
Chimps have 23 pairs of chromosomes and humans have only 22 (excluding pairs of sex chromosomes for both species).

anonymous · Answer

They share a common ancestor.