Biology Quote by Steve Jones

“Fifty percent of human DNA is identical to the DNA of a banana. —”

— Sheryl Scarborough

“In our own genetic profile, believe it or not, scientific evidence indicates that we humans share 99.4% of our total DNA sequences with the chimpanzee.”

— Jill Bolte Taylor

We share half our genes with the banana.

— Robert May, Baron May of Oxford

“[Professor Kinnerton] Has the fact that we have about 97 percent of our DNA in common with chimpanzees escaped you? How can you still…

— Peter Kazmaier

We share half our genes with the banana. [After the announcement Jun 2000 that a working draft of the genetic sequence of humans had…

— Robert May, Baron May of Oxford

My own diagnosis of my problem is a simpler one. It's that I share 50 per cent of my genome with a banana and…

— Sebastian Faulks

Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet we share…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Proponents of the "we're all one race," swill took another hit recently when scientists revealed that bananas share about 50% of the DNA of…

— H. Millard

“...human beings are 90 percent chimp and 10 percent bee.”

— Jonathan Haidt

“As members of the same human species, you and I share all but 0.01% (1/100th of 1%) of identical genetic sequences.”

— Jill Bolte Taylor

You can look at a monkey and see that there is more than a five percent difference in DNA.

— Bob Enyart

We’ve got ninety-nine per cent the same genes as any other person. We’ve got ninety per cent the same as a chimpanzee. We’ve got…

— Caryl Churchill