Question

What makes humans different from trees? (or any other organisms)

Dont we technically have about the same amount of genetic information?

Answer 1

I know that we differ technically from organisms, unless cloned perhaps, but what I'm saying is, since all organisms all have DNA and RNA, in the same "language", what really differs one organism to become a plant and another a human?

Answer 2

ilikephysics2 just copy and pasted that from yahoo answers so he wont be able to answer your question any more than he already has.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081004191309AA8KjKL

Answer 3

trees have roots and we dont

Answer 4

All living organisms have DNA (and RNA), but the amount of DNA that they have differs widely. In general, more complex organisms have more DNA, but this isn't always the case. If you look at this article ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genome#Genome_size), the human genome is about 3.2Gb (3,200,000,000 base pairs). There's a tree on that list with 480Mb (480,000,000 bp), a fish with 130Gb (130,000,000,000 bp)... and, though it is disputed, there may be an amoeba with 670 Gb (670,000,000,000 bp).

This graphic may help you understand the size range: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Genome_Sizes.png/800px-Genome_Sizes.png

Another thing to keep in mind is that even though the DNA code is made out of the same elements (G, C, T, A), those elements are arranged in different ways to make different messages. This means that different organisms can code totally different proteins, though they often make a lot that are the same or similar, e.g. if the proteins are really useful and the code was inherited from a common ancestor.

Think about it this way: all English books in a library will be made of the same 26 letters. So... what makes a 50 page cook book different from a 500 page science fiction novel? Or a 300 page history textbook?

Answer 5

The difference of human from all others is that homo sapience have highly developed neural network so that we can think intelligently and at the same time the adaptation in body parts assisting the intellectual (?) works at-most what ever it is .