Kizzi Posted January 16, 2006 Report Share Posted January 16, 2006 Since there is a limited number of genes (26 I think),then what is the probability of 2 babies that are not twins, sharing exactly the same genes? Kizzi:lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarak Posted February 2, 2006 Report Share Posted February 2, 2006 There are 23 pairs of chromosomes and each chromosome has 1500-3000 genes to put it very crudely as they are not evenly distrubuted.Further only a samll portion of the total genome has these "genes" which encode a particular function or functions.The probablility of two non-twins ending up with the same genome is very low(roughly 1 followed by 11 or 13 zeros- need to be calculated properly). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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