What it means to share DNA with other organisms

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We share 60% of our DNA with bananas, but we are clearly not 60% banana.

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It means you are from the same planet and the same “life-cycle” of the planet with a thread of continuity from the first time life emerged on earth.

We probably share around 65% of our DNA with dinosaurs in general.

Butif life evolved entirely separately on another planet it might have taken different basic pathways and we might not share any DNA with such life. If in fact such life forms had “DNA”.

If we do find aliens and if we share DNA that would be extremely suspicious. That might strongly imply thay life on earth might have been seeded from space.

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