BCLG100 said:my input dropped over the past week as my computer hasnt been on because ive been away, not like i make a huge impact though
This is inherently wrong. Just going off of the stated fact that we have about a billion DNA bases in our genome, that could not equal ~1 GB of storage. There are 4 DNA bases adenine (A), guanine (G), cytosine (C), and thymine (T). In order to display these distinctly, you would need 2 bits. So in effect we have 2 GB of storage in our DNA not just 1. Still a marvelous feat, but this is coming from people who have figured out how to use someone's processor to do work for them.Folding fact #25
Genomics and hard drives: We have about a billion DNA bases in our genome. That's less than 1GB of storage! The genetic differences between humans and chimps is less than a million DNA bases -- small enough to easily fit on a 1.4MB floppy!
VRWCAgent said:Zip, arj, arc, pak, zoo, sqz, lzh, et cetera.
BCLG100 said:erm what?
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Sophie 378 said:
Anyway ... something interesting is that putting it into binary makes it easy to explain copy errors. Suppose you have
10 10 01 00 10 00 00 11
And you accidentally copy it as
10 00 01 00 10 00 00 11
Then that doesn't make too much difference, it may still work ok.
But if you accidentally miss out a number, or add one in, it all goes haywire:
10 10 01 00 10 00 00 11
Add one in:
10 11 00 10 01 00 00 01 1
Genetics is fun!
Oh, and ... 835th and counting!
Are you saying that there are no paritiy bits in the genome?Sophie 378 said:
Anyway ... something interesting is that putting it into binary makes it easy to explain copy errors. Suppose you have
10 10 01 00 10 00 00 11
And you accidentally copy it as
10 00 01 00 10 00 00 11
Then that doesn't make too much difference, it may still work ok.