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Bohandas
2023-02-23, 03:04 PM
What percentage of DNA do apples share with oranges? I want to compare them.
LibraryOgre
2023-02-23, 03:52 PM
While it doesn't list a percentage, this article says they diverged ~89.2 million years ago. (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/comparing-apples-and-oranges-37838381/) About that time, humans were diverging from tree shrews (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_human_evolution) and colugo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colugo) (linked separately because I had no idea what those were).
DavidSh
2023-02-23, 04:42 PM
It seems there are multiple ways of comparing DNA between species (https://www.thetech.org/ask-a-geneticist/sequence-comparisons-and-genetic-relatedness). That doesn't even get into how, while most cultivars of apples and oranges are diploid, some are triploid. (Triploidy is one way of getting seedless citrus fruits.)
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