What I mean by this is, is you are 1/2 your mom and 1/2 your dad, then again, so are your siblings. So are we more closely related to our siblings than our parents?
2007-03-15 15:46:14 · 9 answers · asked by Peanut Butter 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
No - non-identical siblings share upto only 50% of their DNA I believe.
It's obviously not 100% as all siblings would have to be the same sex (in fact they would be identical).
Check this out: http://www.dnatesting.biz/Sibling/sibling.html
This explains how it is only 50% (or less). Siblings with same mother and father could theoretically share NO DNA markers.
2007-03-15 15:49:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Interesting question! Obviously, if you have an identical twin, triplet, quadruplet, you would definitely be more related to them than you are to your parents, having all of your genes in common. But, with a nonidentical sibling, I think that you would have more genes in common than you would have with either of your parents, because all of the genes which you inherited from one parent the other parent would not possess, while your sibling would possess genes from both of your parents as you would, though not necessarily the same genes. Still, most likely you would have more in common with a sibling than with either parent!
2007-03-15 22:59:39 · answer #2 · answered by Lynci 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, but perhaps twins are the exception.
Your genes come directly one half from your mom and one half from your dad- nothing more, nothing less. You are a product of these two people, and are a whole of two halves of them. Everything you are, is from them.
Your siblings, however, have a different set of genes from you, although from the same factor. They might have larger eyes, or you might be taller. Think of it as something as baked goods; a cake and a pie both have flour and eggs in it. But, the cake is more related to the flour and eggs than to the pie because it came directly from the flour and eggs, than to the pie, because although the pie contains flour and eggs, it's completely different from the cake. See, both are made from the same "parents", but came out completely different.
We're definitely more genetically related to our parents than our siblings.
2007-03-15 22:53:53 · answer #3 · answered by cecikuna 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never thought of it. Interesting question though. I guess we only have half of our mom's dna and half of our dad's, but I don't know how much we would share with a sibling since they might have the other have of the dna from your parents that you don't have.
2007-03-15 22:51:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. It is still half and half, no matter how you cut it. Your own children are half of you and half of your hubby. I hear that double cousins are more related though, because the parents of both are brothers and sisters, which makes them more like brothers and sisters.
2007-03-15 22:50:18 · answer #5 · answered by The Nana of Nana's 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very good point I don't know clinically speaking but the evidence would suggest so
2007-03-15 22:50:38 · answer #6 · answered by kevin d 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmmmm, I guess I am more related to my twin!
2007-03-15 22:48:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would logically seem so
2007-03-15 22:48:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No....
2007-03-15 22:48:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋