Science says that our DNA is 85% similar to mice, 61% similar to fruit fly, and even 60% similar to banana, etc., then, we’re so much different in appearance. How does the remaining %, etc. able to make us who we are as different from other species we’re genetically similar to.

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Science says that our DNA is 85% similar to mice, 61% similar to fruit fly, and even 60% similar to banana, etc., then, we’re so much different in appearance. How does the remaining %, etc. able to make us who we are as different from other species we’re genetically similar to.

In: Biology

Answer 1

You underestimate how incredibly similar to a mouse. 4 limbs, hair, brain inside skull, spinal cord protected by vertebrae, roughly similar skeletal structure (except you don’t have a tail anymore), placentas, bearing live young, which are then fed milk, etc. All the diferences between a human and a mouse are very tiny compared to the similarities; I am surprised we only share 85% of the DNA and not more than 90+.