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Did you know we(humans) and chimps have different amounts of chromosones but were so similar that we must gave the same amout of genes. We and chimps are 98% the same. Did you also know that Toucan's have 106 chromosones. I also learned that we divide our DNA into lots of different chromosones and that we have 2 copies of each chromosone. People have 46 chromosones and our closest relatives chimps and other apes have 48 chromosones.After I figured all this out, than I went on Brainpop. I also learned there are two types of cells; prokaryotic and eukaryotic. The prokaryotic cell has no membrane and can live on it's own. Also, the eukaryotic cell has everything like a nucleus and that we are also made up of these kind of cells.