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<blockquote data-quote="BrownFlush" data-source="post: 4927245" data-attributes="member: 65823">The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_genome" target="_blank">human genome</a>, the genetic code in each human cell, contains 23 DNA molecules each containing from 500 thousand to 2.5 million nucleotide pairs. DNA molecules of this size are 1.7 to 8.5 center manager long when uncoiled, or about 5 center manager on average.You have about <a href="http://wow-really.blogspot.com/2006/10/dont-look-now.html" target="_blank">10 trillion cells in your body</a>, so if you stretched the DNA in all the cells out, end to end, they&#039;d stretch over 744 million miles. The moon is only about 250,000 miles away, so all your DNA would stretch to the moon and back alomst 1500 times. The sun is 93,000,000 miles away, so your DNA would reach there and back about 4 times.Imagine this complexity all evolving from non life to life to pond scum and beyond. Amazing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BrownFlush, post: 4927245, member: 65823"] The [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_genome']human genome[/URL], the genetic code in each human cell, contains 23 DNA molecules each containing from 500 thousand to 2.5 million nucleotide pairs. DNA molecules of this size are 1.7 to 8.5 center manager long when uncoiled, or about 5 center manager on average. You have about [URL='http://wow-really.blogspot.com/2006/10/dont-look-now.html']10 trillion cells in your body[/URL], so if you stretched the DNA in all the cells out, end to end, they'd stretch over 744 million miles. The moon is only about 250,000 miles away, so all your DNA would stretch to the moon and back alomst 1500 times. The sun is 93,000,000 miles away, so your DNA would reach there and back about 4 times. Imagine this complexity all evolving from non life to life to pond scum and beyond. Amazing. [/QUOTE]

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