[alexey-salmin]

> You might note that this information is also contained in the same notional 750MB bundle.

Not necessarily, that's the point. It's uncertain if you can recreate a human being from genome alone even with perfect technology. Some crucial information could be passed from one female to another without being present in the genome at all.

> There was an experiment in birds related to this.

I suspect none of these birds were rebuilt in a laboratory from their genome alone. The experiment proves that information is passed inside the egg but it doesn't specify via which medium.

[gus_massa]

> Some crucial information could be passed from one female to another without being present in the genome at all.

Hard to know, but two interesting corner cases:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrion (but they have their own DNA...)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centriole (but it looks like they can grow again "However, [...] cells whose centrioles have been removed via laser ablation [...] centrioles can be synthesized later in a de novo fashion."