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Originally Posted by Ken G
DNA is not uniqely describable by a sequence of nucleic acids? And where does the information come from that determines how its genes operate?
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Um, my point was to downplay the usual "organism x has n % of our genes" claims. All information needed is of course coded into DNA, but by simply comparing different sequences one can't say how genes operate. Same genes activate differently in different organisms and so on. That's why we're so different despite that our DNA looks so similar. Therefore, "DNA is more than the sum of its nucleic acids".