Tag: Genomes
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How Genetic Similarity is Calculated and a Little on What the NASA Twin Study Really Means
You’ve probably heard statistics claiming that DNA between humans and chimpanzees are over 99% similar, or that humans share 50% of there DNA with a banana, or whatever-the-case. More recently, you might have heard news articles from sources such as CNN[1] or Time[2] claim that an astronaut’s (Scott Kelly), DNA changed 7% compared to his…