• Question: what is genetic data

    Asked by Robbie to Praveen on 9 Nov 2015.
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      Praveen Surendran answered on 9 Nov 2015:

      Most of the cells in our body has a nucleus and DNA within it. The DNA is a sequence of approximately 3 billion letters in length. Each letter can be one of the four nucleotides denoted using single letter codes, A/T/G/C. This 3 billion nucelotide is essentially the genetic data in human body. There’s also another genetic material called RNA which is produced from DNA that can also be considered as genetic material and hence considered as valuable data to understand biology and diseases

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