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76. DNA Computer


DNA computing is a form of computing which uses DNA, biochemistry and molecular biology, instead of the traditional silicon-based computer technologies.

DNA computing, or, more generally, biomolecular computing, is a fast developing interdisciplinary area.

DNA computing is fundamentally similar to parallel computing in that it takes advantage of the many different molecules of DNA to try many different possibilities at once.