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2006-11-16 05:58:03 · 2 answers · asked by nicemachine 2 in Science & Mathematics Biology

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A lot, because they have been known to hybridize:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/05/bear-hybrid-photo.html

It looks like polar bears are an offshoot of brown (grizzly) bears that have about 99.3% of the same mtDNA. One could make the case that polar bears are not a different species from brown bears, since they are contained within a lineage of brown bears found on certain southern Alaskan islands.

2006-11-16 08:22:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

All bears and humans have roughly the same genes because we are all related in time.

2006-11-16 14:00:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 3

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