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by Aloisius 372 days ago
> Apparently we share about 50% of our DNA.

This feels like the "we share 50% of our genes with bananas" factoid.

Considering humans have 3.1 billion base pairs and the most fungi have 30-300 million, I'm not sure how this could be true without some major caveats. Admittedly, a lot of our DNA is considered "junk" - though whether it all is or not is a question.

(the banana one is that they're talking specifically about protein coding genes which makes up about 2% of our DNA)

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99% of our dna is non-coding. You’re welcome!