CanadianJogger t1_isietuw wrote on October 16, 2022 at 5:45 AM

Reply to comment by dos0mething 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

>any genetic insult would result in catastrophic change.

That's nonsense. Every cell has its own DNA. After the zygote and blastocyte phases, genetic redundancy increasingly wards against catastrophe.

dos0mething t1_iskdz8j wrote on October 16, 2022 at 5:23 PM

Don't think you read clearly what I wrote. I said if there was no genetic redundancy or large swaths of intronic regions, any genetic insult would result in catastrophe.