• Question: If we came from more or less the same bacteria,would that mean we are all related to each other?

    Asked by ez3t1524 to Kate, Mark U, Tess, Yue, Adam, Faye, Martin, Samantha on 3 May 2012. This question was also asked by xxj4ckxx.
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      Yue Zheng answered on 3 May 2012:

      Hi, Ez3t1524, you are absolutely right. As human, we are very similar to each other. Genetically, we are all 99.9 percent the same. That little difference defines an individual, which is used in finding the suspects in crimes. Because all creatures started from the same orgnaism, we are very related to other animals. For example, there is 95% to 98% similarity between humans and apes from DNA point of view.

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