GoGaslightYerself t1_j63jdhr wrote
Reply to comment by NOVAbuddy in TIL that after scientists sequenced the genome of a tiger they found that it shares 95.6% of its DNA with the domestic cat, from which it diverged 10.8 million years ago. by countdookee
> What kind of organs and capabilities are locked up in that DNA that we can no longer access because we don’t have the raw inputs to make the code useful?
I don't know and am not qualified to even guess. But being that so much of it is identical -- the same sequence repeated over and over (a million times in the case of Alu) -- I suspect it carries about as much useful information as a dial tone.
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