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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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Eli5: I've heard our DNA is 98% identical to a chimpanzee but that we have 50% of our mothers DNA and 50% of our fathers DNA. How am I only 2% different from a chimpanzee and 50% different from my mom?
gpt
Your parents share something like 99.8% of the same DNA, so the 50/50 split is only in the remaining 0.2%, not the entire DNA sequence. 

To put it in perspective, your parents are a pair of Ford Focuses, red and blue. A Chimpanzee is like a Ford Fiesta, which is 98% similar to a Focus. 

You are a purple Focus, 50% mom, 50% dad, but still 98% similar to a Fiesta.