This is a widely repeated "internet fact" but it's not true. For one thing, a banana has only about 520 million base pairs of DNA, while the Human genome has 3.1 billion.
In reality, depending on the search method used, at most about 24% of human genes have orthologous genes in the banana genome:
This is a widely repeated "internet fact" but it's not true. For one thing, a banana has only about 520 million base pairs of DNA, while the Human genome has 3.1 billion.
In reality, depending on the search method used, at most about 24% of human genes have orthologous genes in the banana genome:
https://lab.dessimoz.org/blog/2020/12/08/human-banana-orthol...