(December 26, 2019 at 2:32 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: If you didn;t know the genetic composition of "tomatoes" or "green beans" - having never come into contact with them before, and there being no information on their genetic makeup available to you beyond these three samples...do you think it would be possible to determine that two were alike, and one was different? We'll call these newly discovered groups of organisms "dirt apples" and "leaf penis", for convenience.
If you're giving me their full genome, not a partial segment, then sure, the two that are alike would be alike and the one that was different would be different.