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Permacomputing
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Yes, exactly.
And also, we probably don't need most of our genome anyway. IIRC, 90% or something seems to have no apparent function. It's just there as an artifact of evolution, and never got removed.
So, if you would leave all that out, the actually useful genome is much less than 3,117,275,501 base pairs.
The thing is, we have no idea, which genes are useful or not. It is often very difficult to say, and any error would probably lead to disease. So we don't mess with DNA.