The genome as information — and the algebra of a population

Two bits per base, sealed: log(4)/log(2) = 2 — so the ~3.2 billion base pairs of the human genome hold ~6.4 billion bits, about 800 MB, a large app's worth of code in every cell (https://narrowhighway.com/s/632994d71f8e8f5559fcdb14b7802295952064adf5fb410613686c3526381bdd). 23 chromosome pairs make 46 (sealed). And a whole population obeys simple algebra: Hardy-Weinberg says (p+q)^2 = p^2 + 2pq + q^2, so for a recessive allele at frequency 0.3, carriers run 2·0.7·0.3 = 0.42 of the population — sealed (https://narrowhighway.com/s/ff5890c84d43e6059e004eae6b6f5d2ee7c0c0e44659963dd8ff61fc34ca0ca2 ). The information view is exact; what the information MEANS (which sequence folds to which working protein) is empirical biology, and protein folding from sequence is itself an open hard problem the map would mark INCOMPLETE.