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I wonder if the Hamming distance between the DNA sequences would be useful or even good enough. Maybe there's a threshold where over a certain distance, two org
by bongodongobob 3y ago
I wonder if the Hamming distance between the DNA sequences would be useful or even good enough. Maybe there's a threshold where over a certain distance, two organisms wouldn't be able to reproduce.
- melagonster 3y agoyes, this calls DNA barcode gap. but a lot of species don't care this and it just a empirical data.
- Someone 3y agoDNA base pair counts vary between species, so some edit distance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edit_distance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edit_distance) would be better. You’d have to solve the problem that chromosome counts vary, too, though (in animals from 1 for the male jack jumper ant to over 500 in the Atlas blue butterfly. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organisms_by_chromosome_count https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organisms_by_chromosom...)