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Previously on "Quiz - What do these things have in common"

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  • TimberWolf
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    Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
    99% of our DNA (or whatever) may be the same as a chimp. But that other 1% is really really important.
    As is the other 99%? The tricky bits are probably encoded in the other 99%. Being a bit bigger or having a larger brain is probably just a tiny modification to the genetic code.

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  • NotAllThere
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    99% of our DNA (or whatever) may be the same as a chimp. But that other 1% is really really important, and is what makes so radically different, that we've invented so much - the wheel, wars... while all the chimps have done...

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  • EternalOptimist
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    Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post
    Indeed, all life (on earth) is related. Including us to plants. We are something like 50% banana by some measures.
    disagree. I am at least 75% bananas




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  • TimberWolf
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    Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
    Believe it or not, brewers yeast shares 50% of the genetic code that goes to make up Human DNA.
    Thats right, you are sitting there being an IT guru , but one half of you is a little beery enzyme.

    The amount of difference in the genetic sequence between you and any other living creature is suprisingly tiny


    Indeed, all life (on earth) is related. Including us to plants. We are something like 50% banana by some measures.

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  • EternalOptimist
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    Believe it or not, brewers yeast shares 50% of the genetic code that goes to make up Human DNA.
    Thats right, you are sitting there being an IT guru , but one half of you is a little beery enzyme.

    The amount of difference in the genetic sequence between you and any other living creature is suprisingly tiny


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  • EternalOptimist
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    Originally posted by Pogle View Post
    Ida - disputed missing link lemur
    Knut - German Polar bear

    wot???
    ok the answer is ........
    wait for it..........

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  • Pogle
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    Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
    further clue


    add

    herring
    Ida
    Knut

    to the list
    its a science question



    Ida - disputed missing link lemur
    Knut - German Polar bear

    wot???

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  • Pogle
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    Adam

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  • EternalOptimist
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    Originally posted by The Lone Gunman View Post
    Cant get that one at all.
    A Human could mean anything. Are you looking for a specific human or something essentially human.

    Brewers yeast just brings beer and vitamin B to mind.

    Mockingbird. Harper Lee or the Adamms family keep popping into my head.

    Cant think of a connection though.

    Would further clues be out of the question?
    further clue


    add

    herring
    Ida
    Knut

    to the list
    its a science question


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  • swamp
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    Trivia here.

    Kate Bush pronounced babushka incorrectly. The stress is on the first syllable not the second, so it should be "baaabushka" not "baboooushka" as she sings it.

    HTH

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  • The Lone Gunman
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    Cant get that one at all.
    A Human could mean anything. Are you looking for a specific human or something essentially human.

    Brewers yeast just brings beer and vitamin B to mind.

    Mockingbird. Harper Lee or the Adamms family keep popping into my head.

    Cant think of a connection though.

    Would further clues be out of the question?

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  • Lockhouse
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    Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
    not Charles Darwin
    That was why I only put 9 in the "How intelligent are you poll"...

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  • EternalOptimist
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    Originally posted by Lockhouse View Post
    Charles Darwin. I thank You.
    not Charles Darwin

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  • Lockhouse
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    Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
    well done. I thought AtW might get that one.


    question 4. this is the toughie, no amount of googling will get this one. If anyone gets it I will be impressed to bits.




    Charles Darwin. I thank You.

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  • EternalOptimist
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    Originally posted by The Lone Gunman View Post
    Last one is Baboushka?
    Kate bush song, Russian for Grandma, Story of a woman testing her husbands fidelity
    well done. I thought AtW might get that one.


    question 4. this is the toughie, no amount of googling will get this one. If anyone gets it I will be impressed to bits.



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