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Don’t you share DNA with like all living creatures?
by birdyrooster 4y ago
Don’t you share DNA with like all living creatures?
- Ligma123 4y agoWe do, but you certainly share more genes with people who have lived near you for centuries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_distance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_distance
- actually_a_dog 4y agoYes, of course, but that isn't an incredibly meaningful statement. Humans and bananas share about 40-50% of the same genes, but that only makes up about 1-2% of the actual DNA sequence [0]. If you think about it, sharing a significant number of genes with a banana isn't all that surprising, given that the genes are the portion of the DNA sequence that codes for proteins. Since all naturally occurring proteins are made up of the same ~20 amino acids, and you'd expect a lot of the basic "being a living organism on Earth" type proteins to at least be similar among lots of different organisms, I'd say having 1-2% of your DNA and 40-50% of your genes in common with a fruit doesn't seem too absurd. --- [0]: https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/genetic/people-bananas-share-dna.htm https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/genetic/people-banana...