If Orangutan’s share 97% of their DNA with humans, how are we so radically different?

Question

What goes on in that 3% it DNA, and what similarities do we share in the 97%?

In: Biology

Answer 1

How many limbs do we have? Vertebrate or invertebrate? Exoskeleton or soft skin? Scales, feathers hair or fur? Gills or lungs? Teeth or a beak? What about cell walls, or photosynthesis? Tail or no?

When you look at all of the possible variables across living organisms, or even just in the animal kingdom, it turns out that we answer almost all of these questions exactly the same way that Orangutans do. We actually AREN’T radically different, in the grand scheme of things.