At 5:31, the graph shows what exactly?

It appears to be a genetic comparison graph between two genomes? If that's so, the spikes denote similarities in the genome. However, I'm not entirely certain.

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Course: American Museum of Natural History > Unit 3

Lesson 3: Evolution and human health and well-being (American Museum of Natural History)

Genes and health—moving beyond race

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Many diseases have both genetic and environmental causes. Scientists often take traditional racial boundaries into account when researching why certain populations seem predisposed to certain diseases. But work on asthma at the University of California–San Francisco is going beyond current concepts of race to consider human genetic variation—how our species has diversified in the past 150,000 years—to home in on inherited components that may play a role in disease prevalence. Created by American Museum of Natural History.

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Joseph
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  It appears to be a genetic comparison graph between two genomes? If that's so, the spikes denote similarities in the genome. However, I'm not entirely certain.
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