• Question: Wagwan nic i wana know if i can put my DNA in my Pitbull init and if i could do that ting then would it be a human yeh?

    Asked by Tom And Decalana to Nicholas on 6 Mar 2017.
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      Nicholas Younger answered on 6 Mar 2017:

      Sup!

      People and dogs actually share about 80% of the same DNA sequence. So you could put about 80% of your DNA into your Pitbull and it wouldn’t make a difference.

      You could put your DNA into your adult pitbull and it would probably make it very sick. But if you put your DNA into a pitbull embryo (like a puppy when it’s still in the mum) then you could make a pitbull that had your DNA in it’s cells.

      Scientists do this with mice to see what DNA does. If you have a person with a disease caused by broken DNA, you can put that broken DNA sequence into a mouse embryo, and when it grows up it will have the disease and you can do experiments to see how the gene causes the disease.

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