3 ms·

How much more?

• ISL 11y ago
  Well, poking around the web, it looks like the average bacterial time-between-generations is ~0.1-10 hr, and there are ~0.1-100 mutations/generation. So, if life began 4 billion years ago, I get between 10^11 and 10^16 mutations that need tracking. The article states that there are 10^9 bases in the human genome.
  • Arelius 11y ago
    While that's a pretty significant range, it seems that we could store the entire commit-log in the same amount of DNA that 100 cells normally store.. 10,000,000 cells on the high-end. Which is still only a few milligrams of cells. Impratical of course, but interesting.