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HARUN YAHYA
The Giant Encyclopedia
in the Human Cell
An astounding amount of infor-
mation is recorded in DNA, so much
so that found within a single DNA molecule
(which cannot be seen with the naked eye) is enough
information to fill an encyclopedia of 1,000,000 pages. In the nucle-
us of one cell is encoded enough information to control all the
processes in the human body that would be contained in a giant ency-
clopedia of 920 volumes. For comparison's sake, one of the world's
largest encyclopedias, the 23-volume Encyclopedia Britannica, has a
total of only 25,000 pages. Within a microscopic cell, in a molecule
found in its nucleus, much smaller than the cell itself, is encoded
enough data to fill a store of information 40 times larger than the
world's most thorough encyclopedia, the likes of which have never
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