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DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is the code of life. It is a base-4 coding system, using molecules called guanine (G), thymine (T), cytosine (C), and adenine (A), and the human genome contains about 1.5 GB of information, 50 % more than my copy of Microsoft Office, at least. Each cell in your body has essentially the same information about how to make you! Can you imagine that, considering how small a cell is compared to an Office Installation DVD? But yet, it’s not more complicated than Microsoft Office.
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Phipps, C. (2016). Biology. In: No Wonder You Wonder!. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21680-5_21
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