Ubiquity: #DNA is found virtually everywhere on #Earth: not only WITHIN #cells of but also in various #environmental samples like #soil, #water and #air, as organisms shed cells or leave biological traces behind. #Genes #Metabarcoding #eDNA #Biotechnology #Species #Biodiversity
Size: The #DNA double helix strand is incredibly small(!): only 2 nanometers nm in diameter. A 1000-times thinner than a human hair. Never the less, in its minuscule size, DNA can store vast amounts of genetic information. https://t.co/A4LGGVatXZ
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Storage: 1 g of #DNA could theoretically store about 215 petabytes (or 215 million gigabytes) of data (with each nucleotide base pair representing 2 bits of binary data). #Genes #Genomes #Metabarcoding #eDNA #Biotechnology #Species #biodiversity