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Less similar than a human and a chimp, who share 98.8% of their DNA (American Museum of Natural History).
by nsvd 3y ago
Less similar than a human and a chimp, who share 98.8% of their DNA (American Museum of Natural History).
- baja_blast 3y agoBut a human and chimp's have over 3 billion nucleotides in our genome. SARS2 only has 30 thousand, so the genetic distance between the two are at most decades, but with recombinants the timeline is much shorter