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> "We share 50% of the same DNA as a banana"

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...



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