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Originally Posted by photon
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I posted this in the mind=blown thread:
An analogy to the human genome is that of a book:
* The book is over one billion words long.
* The book is bound in 5,000 300 page volumes.
* The book fits into a cell nucleus the size of a pinpoint.
* A copy of the book (all 5000 volumes) is contained in every cell (except red blood cells) as a strand of DNA over two miles in length.