What it means to share DNA with other organisms

Question

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

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Answer 1

DNA is basically the instructions manual for life. Think about if you are building with legos and each block is a strain of DNA. Whether you are building a train or a plane, there will be some blocks and steps will be the same. That’s the similarity of the DNA. The different blocks and steps is what gives you a train vs a plane or a human vs a banana