[Hawthorn]

>> Humans have a more complicated genome which gives cancer more places to do mischief <<

Not altogether clear. While we have more base pairs, they have more genes.

Source:

http://www.biology-pages.info/G/GenomeSizes.html

[HiTech RedNeck]

OK, so what is the fundamental measure of the information? The “base pairs” or the “genes” or some statistical evaluation of the content of one or the other?

[HiTech RedNeck]

But it doesn’t take as much information to build a mouse as to build a man.