Question

Biomolecules

Bioengineering

The DNA molecules carry the genetic information / code, and in that respect they can be considered a signal. What is the alphabet of that signal? How many bits does each symbol have? The haploid human genome has approximately 3 billion base pairs. Would the information from sequencing a human fit on a CD? Imagine that instead of writing the solution of this homework assignment (so the answers to these three questions), you were aminoacids as letters and encoding it in a protein. How many aminoacids would you need?

Answer 1

1.Alphabet of genetic signal is nitrogen bases UCAG. Each symbol has 3 bits.

2 No , it is a vast amount of information and cannot be fit on single CD

3 . Twenty amino acids