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Re:Time-lapse of a single cell transforming into a salamande... by intricatedetail on Monday January 25, 2021 @08:43PM (#25911413)
Can single atom store more information than a bit?
Re:Time-lapse of a single cell transforming into a salamande... by acomjean on Monday January 25, 2021 @10:13PM (#25912016)
DNA is made up of 4 main components (G,C,A and T). Very generally these encode instructions for making proteins.

Those blocks are very small, less than 20 Atoms.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenine

They’re working on using it for storage. (very slow read write times). Duplicating shouldn’t be a problem.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_digital_data_storage

Re:Time-lapse of a single cell transforming into a salamande... by morlockabove on Monday January 25, 2021 @09:17PM (#25911661)
Each electron present in one of the atom's orbitals is a bit, so yeah.

More realistically, the simplest atom- one proton, one electron- has 3 integer numbers associated with the state of the electron. You need more than a bit to describe the state of that system, so yeah.