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The human genome consist of about ____ chemical letters

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A human genome is approximately 3 billion base pairs (represented by 4 letters each, a combination of A, C, G and T), so to represent all human genetic codes would require about 12 billion letters, for just one person.

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I believe that it consists of about 3 billion letters/base pairs

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