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.
Humans are diploid creatures, meaning that each of the chromosomes in our body are paired up with another. Haploid cells possess only one set of a chromosome. For example, a diploid human cell possesses 46 chromosomes and a gamete created by a human is haploid possesses 23 chromosomes. Tetraploid organisms possess more than 3 sets of a particular chromosome.