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Title: So what percentage of our genes do we share with our mother and father?
Post by: bodiesyt on Nov 9, 2015
We share 50% of our genes with mother and 50% with our father. out of 46 chromosomes, we get 23 from mother and 23 from father.


Title: Re: So what percentage of our genes do we share with our mother and father?
Post by: bio_man on Nov 9, 2015
It doesn't work that way. You get all the genes from your mother, and all the genes from you father. Technically, you possess two alleles of each gene.