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Xais56 t1_ishh9ox wrote

Reply to comment by powercow in When it's said 99.9% of human DNA is the same in all humans, is this referring to only coding DNA or both coding and non-coding DNA combined? by PeanutSalsa

Depends on the animal. I doubt cheetahs have much variance.

Something hardy and successful and desired by humans though I could see having huge variance. Cannabis plants must have incredible variance between sexually produced individuals. (I'm aware it's not an animal, but the point stands).

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powercow t1_ishztdj wrote

oh for sure some have similar or even less than us. I was talking more about on the average side of things, we are a bit less genetically diverse than most. But especially among endangered species id expect diversity to be likely to be lower than ours. Not all that long ago they discovered a family of stick insect that everyone thought was extinct, living in a bush on a remote island. Since only a single family of them were found, its unlikely they are as diverse as we are.

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