Do you know how much information a SINGLE cell contains? If all the information contained in the genes of a single cell were written in books, that information would fill a thousand books of six hundred pages each.
(Cells)
Did you know that each cell has a nucleus and in the nucleus are chromosomes that contain your genes? Now, consider this. If all the chromosomes of an average body were removed, they could be placed in a cube of only one cubic inch in volume. However, if the chromosomes in the cube were uncoiled and laid end to end, they would reach from Earth to the sun eight hundred times, a distance of seventy-five billion miles (121,000,000,000 km).
Here is a chromosome.
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ReplyDeleteWow! This is good stuff, David. Thank you for sharing and showing us what you learned this week.
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WOW, that is AWESOME!
ReplyDeleteThanks David!
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Thanks for the great Biology lesson here:)