Friday, September 25, 2026

DNA Has a Four-Letter Alphabet. Scientists Just Expanded It to Eight

Considering all the variations of life evolution has been able to create with just 4 letters…what orders of magnitude more might 8 result in?


I had to ask GPT. It said this: “So for something the length of a modest 1,000-base gene, an eight-letter alphabet has about 301 additional orders of magnitude of possible sequences.”

Holy crap!

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