Some “genetic experts” are claiming that the DNA sequences
that were extracted by Dr. Ketchum are nothing more than mis-identification of
common animals because parts of the genome match common animals like possum,
bear, coyote, etc. They also claim that any human results must be the result of
contamination. This is disingenuous and misleading (A Lie). The “genetic
experts” are relying on the general public’s ignorance of genetics to confuse
and misrepresent the facts. It has become the latest tactic the critics of the
Ketchum DNA Study use to attempt the discredit the study.
The fact is many organisms on this planet share many of the
same DNA sequences. The critics are only looking at select sequence of the Ketchum
genome and declaring it is a “known animal”. They are not looking at the genome
as a whole. Here are some interesting FACTS about the genetic similarity
between humans and animals:
·
Genome variation from one human to another is .5%
or all humans are 99.5% alike.
·
Chimpanzees are 96% to 98% similar to
humans, depending on how it is calculated. (
source).
·
Cows (
Bos taurus) are 80%
genetically similar to humans (
source)
·
75% of
mouse genes have equivalents in
humans (
source), 90% of the mouse genome could be
lined up with a region on the human genome (
source) 99% of mouse genes turn out to have analogues in
humans (
source)
·
The
fruit fly (
Drosophila) shares
about 60% of its DNA with humans (
source).
·
About 60% of
chicken genes correspond to
a similar human gene. (
source).
Dr. Ketchum discovered that the Sasquatch is a hybrid. The mitochondrial
DNA which comes from the mother is 100% human but the nuclear DNA which comes
from the father is unique or “novel”. This means when Dr. Ketchum extracted the
nuclear DNA and used an industry accepted software program that compared the
Sasquatch nuclear DNA to ALL the DNA sequences in Genbank. The application is
known as BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool). Genbank contains 152,599,230,112
base pairs.
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GenBank)
NO match was found for the
nuclear DNA, I say again NO MATCH.
When a “genetic expert” claims he has looked at the 3
complete Sasquatch genomes Dr. Ketchum published and he found sequences similar
to a possum, bear, dog etc. and that this means the DNA has been “misidentified”
or that Dr. Ketchum is “hoaxing her results” then he is misleading you! For all
intensive purposes he is lying to you! He is using the fact that a high
percentage of the DNA sequences in ALL animals/humans are similar and playing
off the general public’s ignorance of this fact to lie and mislead people.
