'Kangaroo is genetically image of the man'

Australian kangaroos have almost the same genes as humans and composition are therefore the key to solving genetic problems. The kangaroo is a source of information about the man kangaroo is a source of information about the man This is what Australian researchers at the Center of Excellence for Kangaroo Genomics said Tuesday. Together with scientists including the University of Melbourne and Sydney was the genetic system of a kangaroo charted. "It shows us how our genes are organized, how they work and how they arose," says Professor Jenny Graves at the Australian news agency AAP. For example, on the basis of the model studied the emergence of the sex of a baby. "There are only minor differences. We have some more of this, a little less of that, but they are the same genes in the same composition, "says Graves. The man and the kangaroo were 150 million years ago cousins. The marsupial has its origin in China. Through the American continents they are on Antarctica and later ended up in Australia. "The kangaroo is a tremendous source of information about how we have looked 150 million years ago," says Graves.