It is funny when I hear of "junk DNA" as described by the genetics experts.
Why choose to call something unknown as junk instead of just admitting that it
is not understood? Reminds me of the old theory about the amount of one's
brain that is being used. I just wish people would lay out the facts that they
know and not judge the unknowns. I guess some would call LENR junk physics!
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: Jojo Jaro <jth...@hotmail.com>
To: vortex-l <vortex-l@eskimo.com>
Sent: Thu, Dec 27, 2012 8:26 pm
Subject: Re: [Vo]:Digital information storage in DNA
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
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
