• Question: how much DNA is in a body?

    Asked by Ria.s to Reka on 17 Nov 2016. This question was also asked by hannah, Doctor strange.
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      Reka Nagy answered on 17 Nov 2016:

      Each cell in our body has about 3 meters of DNA – about as much as the height of a double decker bus. If we stretched all the DNA from all our cells out end to end, it would be long enough to cover the distance between the Earth and Sun 100 times over.

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