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From: srt@aero.ARPA (Scott "RCA" Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Information Capacity of Human Genome
Keywords: Intelligence
Message-ID: <40841@aero.ARPA>
Date: 8 Nov 88 16:37:30 GMT
References: <1651@ndsuvax.UUCP> <349@uceng.UC.EDU> <42136@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <393@uceng.UC.EDU>
Reply-To: srt@aero.UUCP (Scott "RCA" Turner)
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In article <393@uceng.UC.EDU> dmocsny@uceng.UC.EDU (daniel mocsny) writes:
>The information content of the human genome is ~750 MB, of which
>a sizable fraction determines our basic brain structure.

This is a bit off the original subject, but do you have a cite for this
number?  And is there any evidence concerning how much of this information
is duplicated in the genome?

						-- Scott Turner