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minus-squareooterness@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·5 months 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-squareDharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·5 months agoSo what would the total amount of information in an average ejaculation be? Dumb it down for me, please? Lol
minus-squareLSNLDN@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·5 months agoSurely after some lossless compression this could be improved drastically
minus-squareooterness@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 months 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.
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.
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
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.