Facts of Science: Enough DNA in a person’s body to stretch from the Sun to Pluto ***CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE***
Did you know that there is enough DNA in the average person’s body to stretch from the sun to Pluto and back — 17 times? The human genome (the genetic code in each human cell) contains 23 DNA molecules (called chromosomes), each containing from 500,000 to 2.5 million nucleotide pairs. DNA molecules of this size