
Originally Posted by
conjl
Thanks for the help everyone. So my understanding is that all humans share 99 + % of their type of genes, however the exact version (allele) varies among individuals and we inherit 50% of this varience from each parent. So if all my genes are not exactually the same as yours, as they all have at least one different base pair in the position of one of your base pairs, it is right to say that me and you share 0% our genes, even though over 99% of the genetic code in our genes is identical. So 99 + % of human genes have the same sort of function (e.g coding for eye color) but they are not essentially the same gene. Hopefully I'm on the right track here.