did.. anyone say that there are exabytes in our dna? I seem to have missed that assertion.
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <a...@lomaxdesign.com> wrote: > > >> Natural Selection is not Random Process. Nor are there exabytes of >> information encoded in our DNA, at least not in a single copy of our set. >> It's far, far less than that. >> > > The human genome is around 1.5 GB according to this source: > > http://www.genetic-future.com/2008/06/how-much-data-is-human-genome-it.html > > It couldn't be exabytes because it was sequenced by 2002, when > exabyte-scale storage did not exist. I doubt they stored the raw data the > sequence was derived from. > > The entire genome is copied in every cell, so the total amount of > information per body is ~1.5 GB * 100 trillion cells per body. That would > be 140,000 exabytes (136 zettabytes). > > Abd is correct that natural selection is not a random process. This is a > widespread misunderstanding. > > - Jed > >
