We have a huge amount of DNA in common with jellyfish.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Jellyfish serve as a model for bioengineers for the same reason yeast were once so valuable to geneticists: they're simple to deconstruct.
At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes.
Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
Throughout my life, I've had consistent DNA.
With DNA, the ability to find out a lot more with a lot less has increased our ability for identification.
I would argue that we're not limited by actual DNA. You can re-create the ancient DNA by looking at the genomes of existing animals.
It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me and back again, and into the sea, tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA, passing around heredity as though at a great party.
DNA is a 'thing' - a chemical that sticks to your fingers.
We have the DNA of our Lord Jesus Christ.