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How many bytes occupies the human genetic code?
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How many bytes occupies the human genetic code?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I can't seem to find an answer to this, but given that DNA is made up of four chemical bases arrange opposite each other on a 'ladder', and there are approximately 3 billion of these pairs...
We'd need 2 bits to store each chemical base, times 2 for each pair, times 3 billion... equals 12 billion bits (or about 1.5Gbytes)
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