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jonnythan wrote:

IcyHound wrote:50% the same as your fathers. Don't discount your mother that much.

99% is pretty accurate, actually...

Any given human shares 98% of his DNA with chimpanzees ;)

But if we actually ran him it'd only be a 50% match. If we looked at the actual individual genes yes we share many but the exact match of the chromosomal pairs is going to be 50%. Now he'd share closer 99% with a sibling...

I just feel that 99% discounts his mother who gave him the X and the X caries the bulk of the genetic material....

Poor mom :(

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At 90mph on a 65 mph road in all but (i think) 3 states it is automatic license suspension and/or traffic school to lower your points enough so as to avoid the license loss. Further NO COP ON EARTH would risk his badge by letting your dad ride off with an unregistered bike with stolen plates. At that point, for all the cop knows, your dad stole the bike. Further to the point Cops learn to pace cars so they do know how fast you are going, so long as they follow you for a bit, even without a radar gun. The cameras on the cars are often used to prove someone was going the speed the officer claimed so the local municipalities can get their money. Which brings me back to my first point, as others have already mentioned, no cop is going to lose his job for you and your dad's fun. Cops are often reviewed and those tapes are often used, and the cops know this. Those tapes record audio, and it is doubtful that a review board would look favorably on an officer letting a possibly stolen, excessively speeding, wrong tagged bike just ride off with a slap on the wrist and the cops know this as well!

IcyHound wrote:

jonnythan wrote:

IcyHound wrote:50% the same as your fathers. Don't discount your mother that much.

99% is pretty accurate, actually...

Any given human shares 98% of his DNA with chimpanzees

But if we actually ran him it'd only be a 50% match. If we looked at the actual individual genes yes we share many but the exact match of the chromosomal pairs is going to be 50%. Now he'd share closer 99% with a sibling...

I just feel that 99% discounts his mother who gave him the X and the X caries the bulk of the genetic material....

Poor mom

Statistically, you share 50% of your father's dna, 50% of your mothers dna, 25% of your sibling's dna. Chimpanzee's and humans are 98% alike in general genetic structure - the 2% difference is for genes that code for the vastly difference morphology. The % comparison of the genes you share with family and % that the genetic structure differs for other specias are comparing different things. Or that's what I remember from the evolutionary biology courses. Along with the fact that organisms with a tendency toward unneccesarily life-threatening behavior at a young age tend not to reach the stage or age of propogation, thus removing this tendency from the gene pool.

tropicalhotdog wrote:Statistically, you share 50% of your father's dna, 50% of your mothers dna, 25% of your sibling's dna.

Eh, close. You don't necessarily have 25% of your sibling's genes. It gets kinda complicated in how genes are inherited, but it can technically vary from 0 - 100%.

Now, as for DNA percentages. You get 50% of your DNA from your father and 50% of your DNA from your mother (normally). However, the actual DNA code from your father and the DNA code from your mother are well over 99% identical. There's a *lot* of data in there, and only a tiny tiny fraction of it encodes the traits and genes that make you "unique." The vast, vast, vast majority of it is either useless or encodes the things that make you "human."

Any two human beings, no matter what race or color, share over 99% of their DNA. If you printed out the DNA sequence of any two individuals and highlighted only the parts that differ, you wouldn't be highlighting a whole lot.

ceemes wrote:In my deep dark past, I was an MP in the CAF, and thanks to the FLQ crisis of the 1970's, Canadian MP's are fully accredited Peace Officers and Officers of the Court, with identical powers of those of the Queen's Cowboys (RCMP). You be amazed how many civvies were stunned and p.o'ed to learn in traffic court that that speeding ticket I issued to them on the public highways near the base were legal and the fine legit.

I'm assuming you were Military Police. Cause it would really "pee" me off if Members of Parliament could issue tickets!!

jonnythan wrote:

tropicalhotdog wrote:Statistically, you share 50% of your father's dna, 50% of your mothers dna, 25% of your sibling's dna.

Eh, close. You don't necessarily have 25% of your sibling's genes. It gets kinda complicated in how genes are inherited, but it can technically vary from 0 - 100%.
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That's why I say "statistically." So youre "eh, close" isn't exactly appropriate, since it's all just probabilities. Might be close, might not. But statistically, you have 50% from one parent and 50% from the other. And you could have the same specific gene as a sibling, but it could still lead a very different phenotype when manifested - that's why identical twins aren't identical. And why we should fully embrace cloning, at least of MC riders and Jack Russel terriers.

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rwp wrote:I'm assuming you were Military Police. Cause it would really "pee" me off if Members of Parliament could issue tickets!!

Yes, he was Military Police, or as us Army types liked to call them, "Meatheads".

It would "pee" you off, but it would absolutely TERRIFY me if our Members of Parliament had the authourity to issue traffic tickets... they have all the interpersonal dynamics of a nursery school recess while they're in session at Parliament, can you imagine the damage they could do with a ticket book??!!

rwp wrote:

ceemes wrote:In my deep dark past, I was an MP in the CAF, and thanks to the FLQ crisis of the 1970's, Canadian MP's are fully accredited Peace Officers and Officers of the Court, with identical powers of those of the Queen's Cowboys (RCMP). You be amazed how many civvies were stunned and p.o'ed to learn in traffic court that that speeding ticket I issued to them on the public highways near the base were legal and the fine legit.

I'm assuming you were Military Police. Cause it would really "pee" me off if Members of Parliament could issue tickets!!

All Members of Parliament should be considered guilty until proven otherwise.

Wish I had been a Member of Parliament, they have much better benefits and pensions........