Our current digital data storage is way behind the capacity of DNA. This video shows a comparison. Note, there are a lot of variables involved in these calculations. These estimates are actually on the conservative side based on human chromosomes being inside the whole nucleus. The dimension of the average human cell nucleus was calculated as a sphere with a 10 micrometer diameter. The human genome is roughly 750MB, and there are two copies, so that would be 1.5GB. This was rounded to 1GB to make it a nice round number. The paint buckets are assumed at 1 US Gallon each. Some researchers have stated that all the digital memory on earth can fit into a coffee cup of pure genetic matter, which would be many times more compact than my animation shows.

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