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Basic mendelian genetics, relatedness to brother and terms of percent genes shared pic or graph appreciated?

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Me and my friend were having an argument about genetic relatedness between brother and sister, aunt and cousin. He thinks that brother and sister are 100% related in terms of genes while I try to tell him that we receive 50% random genes from each parent giving each sibling only a 50% relatedness.

I also remember some interesting facts about genetic relatedness between ant sisters being higher than the relatedness to their mother, 66% for sisters, 50% or less (not sure for mother)

Can someone find me some concrete evidence from a reputable source backing up all these facts which I am 100% sure are true.

How do you take into account higher frequencies of dominant to recessive genes, as those work at a 3:1 ratio. Can you also have two dominant genes with a different phenotype end in a frequency of 50%?

This is basic genetics people, someone must have an answer, I left my book at home, easy 10 points to an educated person in science and anthropology.

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  1. The only way you are 100% related is you have an identical twin.  You aren't likely going to be exactly 50% either.  I imagine it would be a natural distribution with 50% as the mean.  Some siblings would by chance have received more of the same chromosomes than others.  Some would be less than 50% the same.  You would be about 50% the same as each parent but not necessarily with your siblings.

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