12-09-2010, 06:17 AM
DNA is kind of irrelevant! I read somewhere that you share something like 50% of your DNA with a banana -- doesn't make you closely related to a banana, does it? XD
But anyway, I think it's safe to say that monkeys weren't affected -- we share only a family with a few of the great apes (gorillas, orangutans, chimpanzees) and we're definitely not of the same genus. As the virus didn't affect the entire Canidae family, which the Canis genus is a part of, in the same way, I'd think it's safe to say ape/monkey-like animals are still around and unaffected?
PLEASE NOTE, I am not a sciency person and I may be very wrong because of this. :3 Feel free to correct~
But anyway, I think it's safe to say that monkeys weren't affected -- we share only a family with a few of the great apes (gorillas, orangutans, chimpanzees) and we're definitely not of the same genus. As the virus didn't affect the entire Canidae family, which the Canis genus is a part of, in the same way, I'd think it's safe to say ape/monkey-like animals are still around and unaffected?
PLEASE NOTE, I am not a sciency person and I may be very wrong because of this. :3 Feel free to correct~