One of the Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Working with the FBI

Re:One of the Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Worki... by interestica on Friday February 01, 2019 @05:58PM (#19059607)

Is there anything quite as shared as DNA? You share 99.xxx percent with everyone else. You share a significant portion with other species. Other living things.

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Re:One of the Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Worki... by interestica on Friday February 01, 2019 @06:02PM (#19059625)

Also, we can't conflate DNA and one's specific DNA sequence. It's like the majority of the code is GPL.

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Re:One of the Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Worki... by pvaldes on Friday February 01, 2019 @08:15PM (#19060312)

> Is there anything quite as shared as DNA?

Music for example. The same poool of musical notes in 100% of compositions. Just arranged in different ways, like DNA

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Re:One of the Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Worki... by ekianjo on Friday February 01, 2019 @09:26PM (#19060624)

Completely wrong analogy. Most genes sequences are completely identical between humans. The differences in genes for specific traits are marginal, percentage wise.

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Re:One of the Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Worki... by pvaldes on Saturday February 02, 2019 @06:13AM (#19062437)

And everybody uses a microphone, guitar, bass, keyboard and some kind of cowbell. trebble clef, bass clef, verse, hooks, a chorus, tempo, allegro, presto, bits per minute... completely identical in many songs.

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Re:One of the Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Worki... by vonseel on Saturday February 02, 2019 @04:50AM (#19062141)

Hmm, I would have guessed differently but I was also an undergrad biology dropout :/ wasn’t concrete enough for me.

FWIW I can see where he was coming from.

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