Did You Know!
You Share Genes with Bananas—But It’s the Non-Coding Regions That Matter Most
Humans share about 60% of their genes with bananas, but what’s truly unique in humans isn’t the number of genes (we have ~20,000) — it’s how the non-coding DNA (once called “junk DNA”) is used. This regulatory DNA helps determine when, where, and how genes are activated, contributing to the complexity of human traits.
