That you can contain x exobytes in y grams. Not anything about how much code is actually in the human body. Seems someone assumed on that.
"Junk" Dna contains a lot of triggers to turn on and off the protein coding DNA. That's actually been known for, well, I learned that about 20 years ago. But it wasn't big news until recently. It also contains leftover viral strands from infective virus up the line, and copies and backups of coding dna, including in some instances previous versions that are deprecated. Interestingly enough, theres a common marker that seperates out those backups, much like comment tags in computer coding. With the protein coding dna sequences, "classes" as it were, and the information in the "junk" to tell the body when and where to use them, the genetic code is actually VERY similar to object oriented programming such as c ++. On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Jojo Jaro <jth...@hotmail.com> wrote: > ** > Well, Jed's story says that we can "store" exabytes of data. > > Nowadays, we only use the "coding" part of DNA to figure out the amount of > "information". Scientists erroneously assume the non-coding parts are > "junk DNA" that have no information. That is not true. The non-coding > parts are not Junk. Newer research are indicating that all of our DNA have > functions we still do not know or understand. If they have function, they > contain information we don't know about yet. > > > Jojo > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* leaking pen <itsat...@gmail.com> > *To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com > *Sent:* Friday, December 28, 2012 5:34 AM > *Subject:* Re: [Vo]:Digital information storage in DNA > > 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 >> >> >
