A new organism is discovered in the forests of Costa Rica.Scientists there determine that the polypeptide sequence of hemoglobin from the new organism has 72 amino acid differences from humans,65 differences from a gibbon,49 differences from a rat,and 5 differences from a frog.These data suggest that the new organism is more closely related to

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The data suggests that the new organism shares the least number of amino acid differences with a frog, indicating that it is most closely related to frogs. Therefore, option B - "frogs than to humans" is the best choice.

A New Organism Is Discovered in the Forests of Costa