Friday, November 7, 2008

DID YOU KNOW?

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

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

If you were to start reciting the order of the ATCGs in your DNA tomorrow morning, at a rate of 100 each minute, 57 years would pass before you reached the end (provided that you did not stop to eat, drink, sleep, use the bathroom etc.)

Our genes are remarkably similar to those of other life forms. For example, we share 98% of our genes with chimpanzees, 90% with mice, 85% with zebra fish, 21% with worms, and 7% with a simple bacterium such as E. coli.

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