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Re: OT: Complexity is in the eye of the beholder
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Ken Hirsch <[log in to unmask]>
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Ken Hirsch <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 8 Jul 2002 16:03:40 -0400
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Wirt Atmar wrote:
>
> But of course, the truth is more deflating than that. If only 5% of the
genome
> is actively translated, and that appears to be so, that makes each of us
> encoded by only 37.5 MB of code, less than a Zip drive's worth.
>

On top of that, once you have "the human genome" (Craig Ventner's), the
difference between that and any other human, say "Wirt Atmar", could
probably be encoded on a floppy disk.

Ken Hirsch

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