An image of Mr Krabs saying “Spanchbab me boy.I sequenced me own genome AACGTCATAGCCTGATTACCAGTAGGTACTAG”

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If we ignore the mutations in the life of an individual, it would actually only be a few hundreds megabytes. Or if we already have a template of a human genome and we only code the difference between them and the human we want to copy, a few megabytes is enough since we all share A LOT of sequences

Wikipedia: Human genome#Information content

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ya I’ve kind of been wondering if with how foods and random mutations affect dna I doubt you could use baby you dna to get an adult that actually looks exactly like you

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There is also epigenetic modifications to be considered

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Oh cool I didn’t know that stuff, it’s super interesting

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It bottles the mind.

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