dunnp t1_ishmgl8 wrote on October 16, 2022 at 1:29 AM Reply to comment by Ixosis in When it's said 99.9% of human DNA is the same in all humans, is this referring to only coding DNA or both coding and non-coding DNA combined? by PeanutSalsa That’s comparing just coding regions with bananas, not the non-coding regions which are the vast majority of the human genome. So more like 70% of the coding 2% of the genome are shared with bananas. Permalink Parent 2
dunnp t1_ishmgl8 wrote
Reply to comment by Ixosis in When it's said 99.9% of human DNA is the same in all humans, is this referring to only coding DNA or both coding and non-coding DNA combined? by PeanutSalsa
That’s comparing just coding regions with bananas, not the non-coding regions which are the vast majority of the human genome. So more like 70% of the coding 2% of the genome are shared with bananas.