How Much Data Does Human DNA Contain?

Grand Canyon filled with Books 98x (DNA of 1 human)

That’s how much information is encoded in the DNA of a single human being, if it were to be printed in book form:

“CARL SAGAN WHO SHOWED BY USING SIMPLE CALCULATION THAT HOW ONE CELL’S VALUE OF GENETIC INFORMATION APPROXIMATES FOUR THOUSAND BOOKS OF WRITTEN INFORMATION WHILE VOLUME OF EACH BOOK WOULD HAVE 50 CUBIC INCHES (SAGAN, 1977).

10^14 CELLS ARE PRESENT IN EACH ADULT INDIVIDUAL.

ABOUT 800 CUBIC MILES HAVE BEEN WORN FROM THE GRAND CANYON.

ACCORDING TO THAT IF EACH CELL IN ONE INDIVIDUAL’S BODY WAS REDUCED TO FOUR THOUSAND BOOKS THEN THEY WOULD FILL THE GRAND CANYON 98 TIMES.”

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4705322/

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وَفِي خَلْقِكُمْ وَمَا يَبُثُّ مِن دَابَّةٍ آيَاتٌ لِّقَوْمٍ يُوقِنُون

“And in your own creation and all the creatures He has spread about, there are signs for people of sure faith.”

[Qur’an 45:4].