[BurningFrog]

Ants and bees in a hive have very similar genetics. Typically 75%, and sometimes 100%, if I remember.

This means that a hive in some ways is best thought of as a single organization, which happens to have a "distributed" body.

In that view, the non reproducing individuals are propagating their DNA in the same sense that human liver cells do, even though they don't have the direct involvement that down and egg cells do.

[derac]

Human beings are 99.9% genetically similar to each other. Also, we're about 99% genetically similar to chimpanzees.

[inciampati]

In the euchromatic regions, yeah, it's about that. Elsewhere (e.g. centromeres) we are all quite diverse. This is recent news due to long read sequencing and complete genome assembly. The human pangenome project is touching on this, if still reticent to make clear claims about the centromeres.

I'm not sure that "99%" similar is the right way to think about chimpanzees and humans. We have a different chromosome number. Our chromosome 2 is a roberstonian fusion of two acrocentric chromosomes found in all other great apes, including chimpanzees and bonobos.

[BurningFrog]

That's a different kind of percentage. The terminology is unfortunate and confusing.

I'm taking about the sense in which you share 50% of the DNA with a sibling or payment.

[lynguist]

And 30% to a tomato. So what?

The basics of cellular respiration are always the same on this planet.

[pi-e-sigma]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfate-reducing_microorganism

[BurningFrog]

Damn, I need to look out for my phone making up words more!

single organization = single organism down and egg = sperm and egg