Ask a Geneticist:

http://www.thetech.org/genetics/ask.php?id=69
While I was reading these two extremely factual articles, I learned many new things about genetics! One of my favorite things that I learned was how similar humans are to chimps! Humans and chimps are over 98% the same! Can you believe that!? Humans and chimps contain of basically the same genes! Chimps are most likely made up of 2 human chromosomes or vice versa. This blew my mind to think about how similar we are to hairy, un-mannerly chimps! Another thing that i found very shocking was that goldfish and toucans have more chromosomes than humans! Goldfish have 94 chromosomes, toucans have 106 chromosomes and only have 46 chromosomes! I would think that humans would have more chromosomes than any other human being but I have been proven wrong! The biggest difference between humans and chimps are the amount of proteins in the chimps brain to the humans brain. Obviously, the humans brain produce more proteins than the chimps.

http://www.thetech.org/genetics/ask.php?id=184
Another interesting thing that I have learned from these two articles was that the human genome split into separate chromosomes rather than being one long strand. This depends on how each organisms reproduces. Some organisms reproduce asexually, meaning that they will split in half and produce off spring that way. Or another way to produce offspring is to produce sexually which is when 2 organisms combine to create a or multiple babies. To add onto my knowledge about chromosomes, i learned that all humans have 46 chromosomes and that 23 must come from the mother and 23 must come from the father. However, if a mutation occurs, the number of chromosomes may vary. I found these articles very informative and they helped me clear up my understanding of genomes and chromosomes!:)