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Sure, but we can correct for that, we have the ability to reliably store copies of the information in DNA (a person's full genome is only a few gigabytes) with
by SolarNet 7y ago
Sure, but we can correct for that, we have the ability to reliably store copies of the information in DNA (a person's full genome is only a few gigabytes) with error correction (or at least verification).
- thfuran 7y agoOur cells are mostly diploid. But some organisms have many more copies of each chromosome - strawberries have eight. With that kind of redundancy, it should be vanishingly unlikely for a random error in DNA replication to make it into a majority of copies and any systematic error severe enough to cause it probably messes up the cell enough for it to be culled by other mechanisms.