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I get your point and I agree, the DNA runs on hardware, which is why you can't take cat DNA and put it in a salamander cell and expect to get a cat. The resulti

I get your point and I agree, the DNA runs on hardware, which is why you can't take cat DNA and put it in a salamander cell and expect to get a cat. The resulting cell will just die since the hardware is not compatible with the DNA. My point was that there is only so much information capacity in the cell if you exclude DNA, surely much less than needed to store electrical fields patterns for a whole embryo.

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FartyMcFarter 6y ago
A cell has a lot of atoms, which may store a lot of information?
- Robotbeat 6y ago
  But not error corrected like DNA.
- fktnktofk 6y ago
  You would see some sort of patterns there, and we don't see such a thing. Like the difference between a silicon microchip and just a silicon block. Same stuff, bit the microchip one has intricate patterns.
intricatedetail 6y ago
Can single atom store more information than a bit?
- morlockabove 6y ago
  Each electron present in one of the atom's orbitals is a bit, so yeah. More realistically, the simplest atom- one proton, one electron- has 3 integer numbers associated with the state of the electron. You need more than a bit to describe the state of that system, so yeah.
- acomjean 6y ago
  DNA is made up of 4 main components (G,C,A and T). Very generally these encode instructions for making proteins. Those blocks are very small, less than 20 Atoms. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenine https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenine They’re working on using it for storage. (very slow read write times). Duplicating shouldn’t be a problem. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_digital_data_storage https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_digital_data_storage
sitkack 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuatara https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuatara https://asunow.asu.edu/20200806-dragon-dna-sequencing-genome-rare-tuatara https://asunow.asu.edu/20200806-dragon-dna-sequencing-genome... https://phys.org/news/2020-08-dinosaur-relative-genome-linked-mammals.html https://phys.org/news/2020-08-dinosaur-relative-genome-linke... I really recommend Anton's segment on the Tuatara, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWywZyzmBDE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWywZyzmBDE MindBlown!

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FartyMcFarter 6y ago

A cell has a lot of atoms, which may store a lot of information?

Robotbeat 6y ago
But not error corrected like DNA.
fktnktofk 6y ago
You would see some sort of patterns there, and we don't see such a thing. Like the difference between a silicon microchip and just a silicon block. Same stuff, bit the microchip one has intricate patterns.

intricatedetail 6y ago

Can single atom store more information than a bit?

morlockabove 6y ago
Each electron present in one of the atom's orbitals is a bit, so yeah. More realistically, the simplest atom- one proton, one electron- has 3 integer numbers associated with the state of the electron. You need more than a bit to describe the state of that system, so yeah.
acomjean 6y ago
DNA is made up of 4 main components (G,C,A and T). Very generally these encode instructions for making proteins. Those blocks are very small, less than 20 Atoms. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenine https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenine They’re working on using it for storage. (very slow read write times). Duplicating shouldn’t be a problem. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_digital_data_storage https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_digital_data_storage

sitkack 6y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuatara https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuatara https://asunow.asu.edu/20200806-dragon-dna-sequencing-genome-rare-tuatara https://asunow.asu.edu/20200806-dragon-dna-sequencing-genome... https://phys.org/news/2020-08-dinosaur-relative-genome-linked-mammals.html https://phys.org/news/2020-08-dinosaur-relative-genome-linke... I really recommend Anton's segment on the Tuatara, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWywZyzmBDE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWywZyzmBDE MindBlown!