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ELI5: How can DNA store 700 terabytes of data in a single gram?
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Think of it close to a computer, except instead of 1s and 0s, it's A, T, C, and G. Each base pair weighs something on the order of 6x10^-22 grams, and a terabyte is only 8x10^12 bits, which leaves several orders of magnitude left over for whatever factors they use to convert base pairs to bits.