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Your body contains ~50 trillion cells, each cell contains 23 pairs of chromosomes, these chromosomes are made of over 3 billion base pairs of DNA, containing 20,000 genes, coding for millions of different proteins. Phew!
If you’d like to find out more about how this genetic information relates to your breakfast, check out this video, 'How To Make A Chicken': http://youtu.be/qnOVByfyFOQ
(via Ross Exton)
Published on April 07, 2014 12:41