To: Heartlander
Which bozo are you quoting there? It's not enough to provide quote marks.
What genes are identical between what bacteria and humans?
To: VadeRetro
This has been a growing puzzle ever since the 1980s, when scientists first started looking into the genomes of different organisms and were shocked to discover that a fruit fly, for instance, has many of the same genes as a human. In fact, all living things share the same genes. Mice share 85-90 percent of their genes with us, cows 80 percent, fruit flies 61 percent and bananas 50 percent. How do these common genes make such vastly different organisms on the one hand and, on the other, why isn't the chimp more like us, with an ability to think, talk and create?
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