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minus-squareooterness@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·22 hours agoThis calculation is off by an order of magnitude. The human genome has about 3.1 billion base pairs. Each sperm has half of that. Ignoring epigenetics, each base pair has four options (A/T/C/G), so it can be represented by two bits each. All told, that’s 3.1 gigabits = 388 megabytes per gamete.
minus-squareLSNLDN@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·16 hours agoSurely after some lossless compression this could be improved drastically
minus-squareooterness@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·13 hours agoThe data would compress well, true. However, the DNA in the cell doesn’t have anything like data compression, and it makes the calculations more complex, so it’s only fair to compare uncompressed sizes.
minus-squareDharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·20 hours agoSo what would the total amount of information in an average ejaculation be? Dumb it down for me, please? Lol
This calculation is off by an order of magnitude.
The human genome has about 3.1 billion base pairs. Each sperm has half of that. Ignoring epigenetics, each base pair has four options (A/T/C/G), so it can be represented by two bits each.
All told, that’s 3.1 gigabits = 388 megabytes per gamete.
Surely after some lossless compression this could be improved drastically
The data would compress well, true. However, the DNA in the cell doesn’t have anything like data compression, and it makes the calculations more complex, so it’s only fair to compare uncompressed sizes.
So what would the total amount of information in an average ejaculation be? Dumb it down for me, please? Lol
97,000 TB
… Jesús Cristo