How many feet of DNA are packed into a single human cell?
Science hard Data from 2023
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The answer
6 feet
Roughly 6.
Uncoiled, the DNA in one human cell stretches about 6 feet, packed into a nucleus a few thousandths of a millimetre across. Add up every cell in your body and the total length would reach the Sun and back roughly 60 times.
Where this number comes from
| Source | National Human Genome Research Institute |
|---|---|
| Figure refers to | 2023 |
| Last checked | |
| Unit | feet |
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