Hello supercollider, hello all!

James Fisher said:

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>as we are brother and sister, the sequences would be very similar
>>>>

But as brother and sister, you can also say "could be perhaps completely
different"! Because you received only 50% of genes from your mother and 50%
from your father.  Your sister could have received the 50 other percent of
each one of them. What would not be the case of a brother of you who could
have received at least a chromosome identical to one of yours.

Statistically not very probable, obviously, but theoretically possible :)

It's not at all the same thing for two sisters in the hive: Same mother
(the queen) and same father (one of her drones).  What these workers
received from him is completely identical for each one. Whereas what they
received from the queencorresponds, as at the human ones, to 50% of her
genome. They are thus what one generally names super-sisters!

Best regards
Jean-Marie Van Dyck

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