Genetic Diversity - ... In order for mutations to affect an organism's descendants, these mutations must: 1) occur in cells that produce the next generation, and 2) also these changes should affect the hereditary material.
byte: The byte data type is an 8-bit signed two's complement integer. It has a minimum value of -128 and a maximum value of 127 (inclusive). The byte data type can be useful for saving memory in large arrays, where the memory savings actually matters.
Bytes. A Byte consists of 8 bits and can represent any of 256 different values. Bytes were originally used as a convenient and Human-friendly way to represent text characters rather than having to use Binary. Ascii (the Amercian Standard Code for Information Interchange) is an old standard of characters that requires 128 values to represent the entire character set.