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DNA's resonant frequency is in the gigahertz range, so you won't be able to hear it anyway.

Sound is a bulk movement in some medium. So there isn't a useful concept of sound when you're dealing with atomic or molecular phenomena.

If individual atoms move at all they do it at very high frequencies. So there's no bulk audible movement to amplify.

The equivalent of increasing visible angular resolution would be increasing the sample rate and slowing the replay rate. You can do this easily for audio sample rates, and with a lot of extra equipment and a bit of hand waving you can convert optical or RF sampling to audio. But it still doesn't quite map to hearing in the way that microscopy maps to sight.




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