how many base pairs of dna do humans have
To do the math, each base pair takes 2 bits (you can use 00, 01, 10, and 11 for T, G, C and A). Multiply that by the number of base pairs in the human genome, and you get 2 * 3 billion = 6,000,000,000 bits. And remember, you have to go from bits to bytes to get to an answer in megabytes. A bit is just a single unit of digital information, but a byte is a sequence of bits (usually 8).