Comment by Qem

Comment by Qem 10 months ago

6 replies

Which human? Despite large sections shared by all mankind and even other species, each individual has an unique genome, except identical twins.

0cf8612b2e1e 10 months ago

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

  • LoganDark 10 months ago

    Also chimeras exist (even natural ones)

    • acchow 10 months ago

      > 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.

dekhn 10 months ago

I was unable to find a scientific article explaining the data source in detail. Likely, they uploaded the reference genome.