According to a research, a minimum of 1,700 genes in African clawed frog genome are alike humans.

African clawed frogs have more things in common with human beings than you may believe, according to their newly sequenced genome that reveals a amazing number of similarities with the human genome.

The frog that’s being talked about is a slimy, round kind technically called Xenopus tropicalis. This is the first time that an amphibian genome has been sequenced, and scientists believe that it signifies a huge step forward in understanding not only frogs, but planet's complete hierarchy of life.

Study Co-Leader Richard Harland, a Biologist at the University of California, Berkeley said, "A lot of furry animals have been sequenced, but far fewer other vertebrates. Having a complete catalog of the genes in Xenopus, along with those of humans, rats, mice and chickens, will help us reassemble the full complement of ancestral vertebrate genes".

At present, over 175 creatures have had their genetic information almost entirely sequenced. That's only a drop in the bucket of the world's surfeit of life.

In reality, genetically talking, several of Earth's organisms are more akin to each other, than you may think by just gazing at them.

The scientists explained the Xenopus genome in the April 30 edition of the journal Science.