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  • Good question. I really don't have an answer, but I would say that since genes are on or off, bits instead of bytes would be more accurate. I would also guess that it would actually be in the megabit range.
  • The human genome is 3,200,000,000 base pairs long. Each base pair represents two bits. If you measure information the same way computer hard drives are measured, then that makes 6,400,000,000 bits which is 800,000,000 bytes which is about 800 Megabytes. Not that big compared to modern hard drives. But if you had this file on your hard drive, you could compress it to a tiny fraction of its original size, because there is a high amount of redundancy in there.

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