According to new research at the University of Queensland,
humans and sponges have a lot in common. The study found that sponges gene
regulation is as complex as humans. Gene regulation is the process that refers
to when and how genes are activated. Histones are proteins that are packaged
within the genetic material and help to determine whether a gene is turned off
or on. The discovery of histones in Amphimdeon queenslandica, or sponges, shows
that this mechanism was “present at the evolutionary dawn of multicellular
animals and across animal species’ (Science Daily, 2017).
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