Fun Facts About Chromosomes! =)

Fun Facts! =)

Fact #1:  

     It takes about 8 hours for one of your cells to completely copy its DNA.

Fact #2: 

     If you were to stretch out the 46 chromosomes in one cell and lay them end to end, they will be over 2 yards in length.

Fact #3: 

     If the total DNA in one person were laid in a straight line, it would stretch to the sun and back over 30 times! -93 million mile from here to the sun-

Fact #4: 

     The human DNA code is made up of about three thousand million A,T, C, and G's on each end of a DNA strand.

Fact #5: 

     One thousand nuclei would fit across the period at the end of this sentence.

Fact #6: 

      If the human genome was a book, it would be equivalent to 800 dictionaries.

Fact #7: 

     Humans are 99.8% genetically identical, only 0.2% of our genetic make up differs.

Fact #8: 

     One million threads of DNA could fit across the period at the end of this sentence.

Fact #9: 

      It would take a person typing 60 words per minute, 8 hours a day, for around 50 years to type the human genome.

Fact #10: The nucleus within a cell is so tiny it could easily fit on the head of a sewing pin!