Aren't humans 70% similar in DNA to mushrooms?

Inside every domestic cat is a tiger just waiting to get out (and eat you). 🐈 🐅

That doesn't seem like a lot considering humans share ~90% of our dna with cats.

We have a 96% overlap with chimpanzees.

A cat is a cat, just some have bigger teeth.

99%*

You sound like a fungi.

Possibly more, have met some really strange ones 😬

Cats also haven’t really changed that much evolutionarily in a very very long time… they’re so perfect in so many ways for survival.

There's this zoologist on TV that hate cats. He said that the only difference between big and small cats is size and that a house cat would gladly eat its owner if it was as big as a tiger, and that a tiny tiger would beg for food and attention, then ignore the owner when it's needs are met as cats do.

Mine doesn't wait. He actively tries, just hasn't quite figured out the how....yet.

The average human is 92% similar to an Italian

Damn that's wild TIL

My pet cockroach is better though

Genomes need to be 96-98% identical for them to belong to the same species.

Little cat good, big cat bad. 👍

> If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.

Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

Well the Orks in WH40k are basically angry mushrooms so it checks out.

Domestic cats have never forgotten this.

Meowza!!! 🙀

98,9%*

And we share a common ancestor with them from about 7.8 million years ago. Which has scientists asking the question: which came first? Italy or Italians?

Sir Terry ever warned us against the dangers of style and glamour. I am not with him on this here. Feral cat often live in colonies and share hunting spoils as well as kitten care work. A cat that likes you will care when you are ill. They are bastards to mice and birds though. They will care for you if they like you personally.

It's your pet. Of course it is better (to you).

> They will care for you if they like you personally killing you is more effort than waiting to be fed

If I learned anything from driving, it's that you can take the Italians out of Italy.

But you can't take the Italy of the Italians.

But can you fuck a mushroom?

Ew, no David.

Like the cat in the hat

They’re the great white sharks of land

69%* 🎸🎸🎸

no wonder my tiger acts like a cat

Technically you can fuck anything

Now I want a pet house great white shark

This much different: 🤌

"I have an orifice, God -- can you fuck me?"

God has certainly fucked me several times

Could determine the same thing by giving the tiger a box. Test done.

So we are closer related to chimps (8mil years) than the domestic cat to tigers

But frogs are cute AF too

Humans usually have 80-90% in common genes with other mammals.

I have it on good word that God has involuntarily impregnated at least one virgin before, so there.

Seriously cool fact.

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And paedophiles share more dna with crabs than you or me.

I thought god did it. /s

Alter boy?

Just need to change two genes, right? One for bigginess and one for stripes. Thats how genetics work, or?

Only about 2% of the human genome codes for protein synthesis. On the other hand, about 50% of human DNA is so-called "junk DNA" that has no apparent function. It's believed that much of this DNA originally came from viruses.

Roughly 10% of the human genome consists of about a million scattered copies of a single 286-base sequence (or "sentence") of this "junk DNA" called "Alu." It's the genomic equivalent of meaningless SPAM, repeated endlessly...

I always wonder if that junk DNA would do something if we still consumed for example, the Pleistocene megafauna. Like maybe if we ate paraceratherium liver our cells would have the molecular building blocks for our DNA make proteins we no longer have. What kind of organs and capabilities are locked up in that DNA that we can no longer access because we don’t have the raw inputs to make the code useful?

> What kind of organs and capabilities are locked up in that DNA that we can no longer access because we don’t have the raw inputs to make the code useful?

I don't know and am not qualified to even guess. But being that so much of it is identical -- the same sequence repeated over and over (a million times in the case of Alu) -- I suspect it carries about as much useful information as a dial tone.

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"Junk DNA" is a misnomer based on our poor understanding of how DNA works during early studies. Further research has shown that its not "junk" and does serve several important purposes.

https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/understanding/basics/noncodingdna/

> Roughly 10% of the human genome consists of about a million scattered copies of a single 286-base sequence (or "sentence") of this "junk DNA" called "Alu." It's the genomic equivalent of meaningless SPAM, repeated endlessly...

At least some of it controls gene expression. Beyond that the fact its highly conserved in primates suggests it does something.

That sounds impressive until you realise the vast, vast majority of DNA sequencing is concerned mainly with keeping life eukaryotic as opposed to prokaryotic.

Actually 7.8 million, plus 30 years, we had a common ancestor, Morty, first Jewish caveman. Oy vay.

So you're telling me one day a cat just got pissed off at everyone and everything and then like tom hanks decided "i wanna be BIG"?