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natrius on Aug 17, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of...

A mutation has to happen in germ cells (the cells that produce sperm and eggs) for it to pass to the next generation.

sp332 on Aug 17, 2012 [–]

I know. If a germ cell has DNA that has been copied 41 times (the average that I calculated), and that DNA has accumulated 60 errors, that means 1 error per 2 billion base pairs copied.

natrius on Aug 17, 2012 | [–]

Ah, I misunderstood your logic. Makes sense.

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