When symptoms are present, diagnosing the presence of osteophytes is a combination of a clinical exam of the joints and x-rays. Once the presence of osteophytes is confirmed, the treatment will depend on the severity of the disease.
While the genetic difference between individual humans today is minuscule â about 0.1%, on average â study of the same aspects of the chimpanzee genome indicates a difference of about 1.2%. The bonobo (Pan paniscus), which is the close cousin of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), differs from humans to the same degree.
Genes are the basic functional units of DNA. Your DNA contains instructions to build every single molecule in your body. It is the blueprint for you. On the molecular level, humans are 99.9% exactly the same! The difference between you and someone on the other side of the planet is only .01% of your genes. To get even stranger, the genetic difference between humans and monkeys is only 99.8%! Even strangerâ¦ 97.5% of our DNA is exactly the same as that of a mouse! Thatâs only a 2.5% difference in genetic information.