A compact disc (CD) stores about 4.8 10 9 bits of information in a 96 cm

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A compact disc (CD) stores about 4.8 × 109 bits of information in a 96 cm2 area. This information is stored as a binary code—that is, every bit is either a 0 or a 1.

A. How many bits would it take to specify each nucleotide pair in a DNA sequence?

B. How many CDs would it take to store the information contained in the human genome?

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Essential Cell Biology

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Authors: Bruce Alberts, Karen Hopkin, Alexander Johnson, David Morgan, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts, Peter Walter

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