Comment by Qem
Which human? Despite large sections shared by all mankind and even other species, each individual has an unique genome, except identical twins.
Which human? Despite large sections shared by all mankind and even other species, each individual has an unique genome, except identical twins.
Worse than that, by count, only a minority of the cells using a person's DNA make up that person. The number of other cells are 10x, but being smaller, only make up 1% to 3% by mass. https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-human-micr...
> There is drift within an organism. The genome on your scalp is different than the genome on your toes
> Also chimeras exist
This provides a deep insight into the nature of multicellular life. People think that a "unicellular organism" eventually turned into a "multicellular organism". But they're not so distinct. The latter is really still just a bunch of cells coordinating, but their coordination is so deep, and the number of cells and functions so large, that emergent properties arise.
any human differs less than 1 % (although it really depends on how you count differences). It would make sense to store one reference, and then everybody is stored as a delta relative to that (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRAM_(file_format) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compression_of_genomic_sequenc...)
It is worse than that. There is drift within an organism. The genome on your scalp is different than the genome on your toes.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aaw0726