Human Genome (Printed)

3 billion letters of you, filling 262,000 pages/Scientific Objects

If you printed the entire human genome as text (A, T, G, C), it would fill about 262,000 pages of standard A4 paper. The complete sequence contains about 3.2 billion base pairs and would take approximately 31 years to read aloud at one base per second, 24 hours a day. Only about 1.5% of the genome encodes proteins; the rest was once called 'junk DNA' but is increasingly recognized as functionally important.