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I doubt that is going to work they way you think it will. DNA is not the same as digital data in that its final use state is 3 dimensional, not 1d like a tape (
by RosanaAnaDana 9y ago
I doubt that is going to work they way you think it will. DNA is not the same as digital data in that its final use state is 3 dimensional, not 1d like a tape (or digital file) or 2d like a raster or some other matrix. As well, this 3d form isn't fixed. So redundant sequences can have very different expression and conformal changes despite being 'digitally' identical.
This is further complicated by some weird fricken shit, like in theses cockroaches. Top of my head and can't remember the species or exact number, but I remember some species of fern having between 100-1000 duplicate copies of its genome in each cell. Pteridium I think? Any ways. It was bonkers.