Fun Facts about DNA
- One human's entire DNA sequence would fill 200 1,000-page New York City telephone directories.
- A complete 3 billion base genome would take 3 gigabytes of storage space.
- If unwound and tied together, the strands of DNA in one cell would stretch almost six feet but would be only 50 trillionths of an inch wide.
- If you unwrap all the DNA you have in all your cells, you could reach the moon 6000 times!
- About 1% of a cell consists of DNA.
- Genome = 46 chromosomes
- Genome = approx. 3 billion base pairs
- One base pair is 0.00000000034 meters
- DNA sequence in any two people is 99.9% identical – only 0.1% is unique!