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Leonard Susskind explains it nicely in his Stanford Cosmology lecture series (here are all of them: http://www.scoop.it/t/amazing-science/p/1531872166/43-susskind-lectures-about-advanced-physics-and-cosmology-stanford). Excellent written explanation is on wikipedia...

MD, PhD - worked as VP R&D at a Fortune 100 company (supervising 155 scientists). Training in molecular biology, immunology, genetics, protein chemistry, and oncology. Currently working on next generation sequencing technology and bioinformatic tools to develop the logistics to bring detailed...

Dear Monique, a nucleus has far, far more data stored than 750 MB. The DNA backbone alone (not considering DNA methylation) has about 3.3 GB in its haploid form for human DNA (one byte being 2 bits of information A=T, G=C and T=A, C=G). Most of the information is stored in non-coding stretches...