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Volumes of Information in the Human Cell
The information stored in DNA must by no means be underestimated.
So much so that one human DNA molecule contains enough information to
fill a million-page encyclopaedia, or to fill about 1,000 books. Note this fact
well: one million encyclopaedia pages, or 1,000 books. This is to say that the
nucleus of each cell contains as much information as would fill a one-
million-page encyclopaedia, which is used to control the functions of the
human body. To draw an analogy, we can state that even the 23-volume-
Encyclopaedia Britannica, one of the greatest mines of information in
the world, has 25,000 pages. Therefore, before us lies an
incredible picture. In a molecule found in a
nucleus, which is far smaller than the
microscopic cell wherein it is
located, there exists a

There is enough information
in one DNA molecule to fill
1,000 books. This is
encoded in the DNA seen in
the picture. All of a person's
features are encoded in an
alphabet symbolized in the
letters A, T, C and G.

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