How did they calculate a single sperm to have 37 megabytes of information?
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DNA is coded with 4 letters: A, T, G, C.
A byte can hold 4 pieces of these letters. A byte can contain for example “ATTG”.
If you know how long your data is, then you know how much byte you need. For example “AATGCCAT” is 8 code long, than you need 2 bytes.
37MB is appr. 37 Million bytes. That means the genetic code must be about 4*37 Million = 148 Million codes.
A sperm has the half of your genes/code. If a human has about 300 Milion codes then the calculation is correct.
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