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“If uncoiled, the DNA in all the cells in your body would stretch 10 billion miles, from here to Pluto and back.”

by anonymous asked Mar 2, 2021 13 views

“If uncoiled, the DNA in all the cells in your body would stretch 10 billion miles, from here to Pluto and back.”

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by anonymous answered Mar 2, 2021

DNA is like tiny coils of spaghetti, smaller that can be seen by the human eye, inside every cell in our body. These are the instructions for building the human body. There are approximately 10 trillion cells in your body, so when we put all the tiny DNA strands end to end they stretch really really far!

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by anonymous asked Feb 26, 2021 8 views

If you unravelled all of your DNA from all of your cells and laid out the DNA end to end, the strand would stretch from the Earth to the Sun hundreds of times (the sun is approximately 98 million miles away from Earth).

If you unravelled all of your DNA from all of your cells and laid out the DNA end to end, the strand would stretch from the Earth to the Sun hundreds of times (the sun is approximately 98 million miles away from Earth).

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by anonymous asked Feb 26, 2021 7 views

There are approximately 3 billion (3,000,000,000) chemical letters (otherwise known as bases) in the DNA code in every cell in your body.

There are approximately 3 billion (3,000,000,000) chemical letters (otherwise known as bases) in the DNA code in every cell in your body.

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by anonymous asked Feb 26, 2021 8 views

Every day an adult body produces 300 billion new cells. Your body not only needs energy to keep your organs up and running but also to constantly repair and build new cells to form the building blocks of your body itself.

Every day an adult body produces 300 billion new cells. Your body not only needs energy to keep your organs up and running but also to constantly repair and build new cells to form the building blocks of your body itself.

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by anonymous asked Feb 26, 2021 7 views

The human body is estimated to have 60,000 miles of blood vessels. To put that in perspective, the distance around the earth is about 25,000 miles, making the distance your blood vessels could travel if laid end to end more than two times around the earth.

The human body is estimated to have 60,000 miles of blood vessels. To put that in perspective, the distance around the earth is about 25,000 miles, making the distance your blood vessels could travel if laid end to end more than two times around the earth.

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by anonymous asked Feb 26, 2021 8 views

Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles per hour. Ever wonder how you can react so fast to things around you or why that stubbed toe hurts right away? It’s due to the super-speedy movement of nerve impulses from your brain to the rest of your body and vice versa, bringing reactions at the speed of a high powered luxury sports car.

Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles per hour. Ever wonder how you can react so fast to things around you or why that stubbed toe hurts right away? It's due to the ... rest of your body and vice versa, bringing reactions at the speed of a high powered luxury sports car.

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