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"HUMAN DNA has approximately 3 billion base pairs, according to the National Human Genome Research Institute. That means 4^3,000,000,000 possible base sequences." https://lnkd.in/eq-g674 View in LinkedIn

ONLY FOUR NUCLEOTIDES BUILD DNA. "DNA is a long molecule, like a chain, where the links of the chain are pieces called nucleotides (sometimes also called 'bases'). There are four different types of nucleotides in DNA which we'll call 'A', 'G', 'C' and 'T'. These four are all that's necessary to write a code that describes our entire body plan. Sounds too simple? Keep in mind that Morse Code uses only four symbols (dot, dash, short spaces and long spaces), and you could spell out entire encyclopedias of knowledge with that simple code!" https://lnkd.in/d_a7EW4 View in LinkedIn

"TEN MILLION COMPOUNDS are known, and of these, 9 million are carbon based. Many were synthesized after Wohler proved that chemical like urea could be synthesized (1828), destroying the Vital Force theory that supposed that organic compounds must come from pre-existing life." The number of possible chemicals are greater than the number of grains of sand (7.5 x 10(18)). https://lnkd.in/dcWgC9X View in LinkedIn

“118 ELEMENTS in the periodic table compose the planets and all the universes. Only 94 are found naturally and of these, 7 are novel gases that only form compounds with difficulty. This is the entire list of the fundamental known elements. The remaining 87 are the building blocks that combine to make compounds. Biological compounds, mainly carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen with a little phosphorus and sulfur compose 99% of living structures.” http://www.ptable.com/ View in LinkedIn

"SIMPLICITY, it would seem, is a simple matter." (Raymond D. Havens, 1953). https://lnkd.in/d_4wdkS View in LinkedIn

SMALLEST NATURAL GENE SET. "The complete sequence of the 580 kb M. genitalium genome; it encodes a mere 480 proteins." https://lnkd.in/dsXKSjN View in LinkedIn

JUMPING CODE. "Mobile code can also download and execute in the client workstation via email. Mobile code may download via an email attachment (e.g., macro in a Word file) or via an HTML email body (e.g., JavaScript). For example, the ILOVEYOU, TRUELOVE, and AnnaK email viruses/worms all were implemented as mobile code." https://lnkd.in/dZ5JPXK View in LinkedIn

MINIMAL NUMBER OF GENES. "Over the years, a number of experiments have been undertaken to approximate the number of essential genes within various model organisms. Most often this was done through the generation of a set of mutations that were subsequently classified with respect to lethality." https://lnkd.in/dsXKSjN View in LinkedIn

JUMPING GENES. "Transposable elements (TEs), also known as "jumping genes," are DNA sequences that move from one location on the genome to another. For example, TEs make up approximately 50% of the human genome and up to 90% of the maize genome." https://lnkd.in/GEpmJN View in LinkedIn

SIMPLER FOLDING. "But the fundamental physics underlying folding may be much simpler than this complexity would lead us to expect: folding rates and mechanisms appear to be largely determined by the topology of the native (folded) state." https://lnkd.in/dip7EJJ View in LinkedIn