It is true that we as humans share 90% of our Genes with Apes... But it is also true that we share 50% of of our genes with bananas. I hope I'm not half banana. Also we share 100% of our genes with... Dirt! the exact substance god said he made us out of.
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I do believe this poor fellow is more closely related to a banana that he realizes.
Of course only living organisms or cells carry genes, or genomes. "Dirt" does not reproduce, and therefore does not require the building blocks of genetic material.
I do believe I'm going to need some time away from FSTDT for a while - not quite sure I can subject myself to much more idiocy on a daily basis........
Sorry, BurntBush, but that banana figure isn't so far off.
The point is, both we an bananas have cells full of DNA that needs folding, unfolding, unzipping, replicating, mending, supporting, translating, separating, etc. And the cells themselves need amino acids making, and tRNAs, and ATP, and ribosomes, and tons more bits.
Almost all the functions going on in one of your cells are also present in the cells of a banana. And as both have a common ancestor way, way back in the dpeths of history, the genetics of these basic cell functions are very similar.
Fundie explanation: Godidit!
we share 100% of our genes with... Dirt!
Please tell me Sarge just made this up and it isn't in a fundie textbook somewhere.
Now while dirt is full of countless fungi, larvae, worms, seeds, spores and the like, the main forms of life in dirt are prokaryotes not eukaryotes. No we don't share 100% of our genes with any of the life forms in dirt, and as for the non living matter, ummmmm no!
Is this what most kids are learning when they're home-schooled?
Does anyone else find it somewhat tragic how, if you're a teacher, you have to go through several years of schooling to get your credentials, but any run-of-the-mill dumbass who can pop out babies is allowed to pass on their ignorance in the form of home-schooling?
....Uh....
If we shared 100% of our genes with dirt, y'know what we'd be?
DIRT!
NOT HUMAN BEINGS, BUTT-NUGGET!
The A horizon, or topsoil, is decaying organic matter and would probably have the genetic material of leaf litter, other dead decaying plants, and the bacteria in the decay process. Further down, it's inorganic until you get to regolith and bedrock and would not have any genetic material. It is safe to say that almost none of our genetic code is found here. We are related to everything on earth, closest to primates, then to other mammals, then to other vertebrates, then to invertebrates, then to plants, then to protozoans (even that "bug" tha last made you sick).
Nope. You share 50% of your genetic structure with a bannanna because you're both living organisms.
Past that, the similarity ends, hence the great difference between you and a bannanna. For instance, you are neither color-coded for convenience nor particularly edible, although those with broader tastes might disagree.
Even they won't find you palatable.
You also posses traits no bannanna has, such as the ability to use language in a primitive form, operate a computer (albeit poorly) and waltz into a conversation and fling shit everywhere, a trait you seem to have inherited from our cousins the chimpanzes.
You share 0% percent of your genetic structure with dirt, because it HAS nogenetic structure.
Capishe?
Sincerely, Kieranfoy
If dirt had genes...which I don't believe it does...and we shared 100% of those genes, wouldn't we be, well, dirt?
BREAKING NEWS - DIRT GENES FOUND !!
who buried the body where this guy would test ?
I have a body part that looks somewhat like a banana.
you are a disgrace to every real life sergeant in this world and to Sergeant Sarge from the popular web series red vs blue.
also, dirt doesn't have genes
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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