Page 71 - If Darwin Had Known about DNA

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Instead of using units of measurement, scientists resort to various
comparisons to emphasize the vast amount of genetic data in human
beings. Here are some examples that stress the breadth of the data ca-
pacity in DNA:
*If the information in the human genome could be written
down using the alphabet, it would fill 1,000 books of 1,000 pages
each, each page containing 3,000 letters. 56 1,000 books times
1,000 pages times 3,000 letters equals 3,000,000,000 (3 billion)
letters.
*If those 3 billion letters in the human genome were
written out as a single sentence, it would stretch from the
North Pole to the Equator. Someone working at a type-
writer at a rate of 300 letters per minute for 8 hours a
day, 220 days a year, would take 95 years to complete
the task. 57
*For the genetic information to be written out
would require 12,000 160-page books. Compared
with computer chips with a 16 MB capacity (a
megabyte is 1 million bytes, the smallest da-
ta units in a computer), the DNA strip in
the human genome contains 1,400 times
more information. 58
*If a pinhead 2 millimeters (0.078 of
an inch) in diameter were stretched out to
the thinness of the DNA molecule, it would
be 33 times longer than the Equator. 59
*The information in DNA is sufficient
to fill a library consisting of 100 sets of a
30-volume encyclopedia. 60