How much information is stored in a human body?

hmushtaq (58)in #science • 7 years ago (edited)

Each cell in a human body contains copy of the whole human DNA. And the human DNA consists of 3,234.83 Mb (Mega-basepairs), which is approximately 3.2 giga bits or 0.4 Giga bytes (GB) equivalent of digital storage. This is because each base pair can be thought of as 2 bits in terms of digital storage. However, there is some sort of dependency between base pairs, so instead of 2 bits, I would just consider them as 1 bit.

Now how many cells does a human body contain? Estimates range from 10 trillion to 100 trillion cells. So, if we use the least approximation of 10 trillion cells, the total number of bytes in a human body would be 10 trillions multiplied by 0.4 GB, which comes out to be a whopping 4 Quintillion bytes, where one Quintillion is a billion of a billion, or in computer terminology, 1 billion GBs or a million Terabytes! Crazy, ain't it?

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7 years ago in #science by hmushtaq (58)

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gravitcaper (60) 7 years ago

buena mañana

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speedvoter (51) 7 years ago

This comment has received a 3.13 % upvote from @speedvoter thanks to: @gravitcaper.

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retiredinsamar (56) 7 years ago (edited)

Great bit of knowledge! I think with this information I can now justify charging my wife for my memory usage. Every time I have to remind her of something (like putting gas in the car or turning off a light), I will charge her .25 cents. Heck, I'll be wealthy in no time! 😆

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engramanullah (56) 7 years ago

Hamid What an information about human body. God blessed human more and more capabilities Thanks for sharing useful information.

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hmushtaq (58) 7 years ago

Yes human body is an amazing piece of art from God. On a normal computer nowadays, you have 1 TB of hard disk. Human body has storage equivalent to million of such hard disks!

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