Quote from Becky Rose :


<php (people homosapiens program)
if( DNA=='human' ){
fabricateSocialConstructAndStartWars=true;
taxTheEatSleepSexPerogative=true;
}
else {
followEatSleepSexPerogative=true;
}


Hahah, so true

at school we lern:
1,000,000,000,000:1 is the chance to find two human on earth with the identical dna-code.

additionally, there is a thing called crossing over and mutations these two things are keeping the code in variation.

the world in php? you cant be serious... i prefer the hacked together in perl variant of the theory

Quote from Mazz4200 :

Apparently, a halibut has a 98% identical genetic code to us humans, and a banana is about 92% identical. So maybe one day they'll be robbing banks and mugging little old ladies...that'll be and interesting Crimewatch reconstruction

Where did you find those figures? I heard that the DNA of chimpanzees is 98% identical to ours. (BTW, does this mean that halibuts can climb trees? Or that a chimp eating a banana is almost committing cannibalism? )

More seriously, you shouldn't be surprised if we share a large part of our DNA with plants and bacteria. Most genes seem to encode for the basic chemistry of the cell. Add to that the fact that 95% is junk DNA that doesn't seem to encode for anything, and the differences become very small indeed. (Alternatively, you might also say that these similarity figures are bloody useless. :razz

Quote from Shotglass :

thats a total complete load of rubbish
according to wikipedia the human genome project found that the entire human dna consists of 3.08 billion base pairs
each of those pairs can in principle be any of 4 possible combinations of bases... in other words a base pair stores 2 bit
take all that and you end up with about 734 megabyte of data... so the whole thing almost fits on a single cd

Quote from Mazz4200 :

Don't understand it myself, and i'm not even sure if it's true, but i guess statisticians have to earn a living somehow.

Quote from wsinda :

Where did you find those figures? I heard that the DNA of chimpanzees is 98% identical to ours.

Quote from Mazz4200 :

Apparently, a halibut has a 98% identical genetic code to us humans

I can't remember the exact place i got the info from, but these "facts" have been doing the rounds in the creationists v's evolutionists debate for years