The human genome illustrates both continuity and change. All humans are nearly identical in coding sequences and have many proteins that are identical in structure and function. Nevertheless, each human has a unique DNA fingerprint. Explain this apparent contradiction.

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20 December, 10:19

The human genome illustrates both continuity and change. All humans are nearly identical in coding sequences and have many proteins that are identical in structure and function. Nevertheless, each human has a unique DNA fingerprint. Explain this apparent contradiction.

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Alina Meadows · Answer 1

Explanation: Despite the fact that two persons share nearly identical coding sequences and have many protein that are identical in function and structure. It constitution about 99.9% of the human genome. The remaining 0.01% although might look small make up more than a million base pairs accounting for the differences exhibition by two persons. Thus, this differences is used to distinguish two persons from each other such as the case of fingerprints.