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1. If you unwrap all the DNA you have in all your cells, you could reach the moon 6000 times!
2. Our entire DNA sequence would fill 200 1,000-page New York City telephone directories.
3. It would take a person typing 60 words per minute, eight hours a day, around 50 years to type the human genome.
4. We eat DNA every day.
5. Many things can cause mutations, including UV irradiation from the sun, chemicals like drugs, etc.
6. If all three billion letters in the human genome were stacked one millimeter apart, they would reach a height 7,000 times the height of the Empire State Building.
7. If the total DNA from one person were laid in a straight line, it would stretch to the sun and pack 30 times! (It is over 93 million miles from Earth to the sun)
8. If the human genome was a book, it would be equivalent to 800 dictionaries.
9. Genes make up only 2-3% of the human genome.
10. It takes about 8 hours for one of your cells to completely copy it's DNA
11. It would take 57 years to recite your ATCGs at a rate of 100 per minuet if you started tomorrow morning.
12. You could fit one million threads of DNA across the period at the end of this sentence.
13. There are three billion (3,000,000,000) base pairs in the DNA code within each cell.
14. Humans have approximately 30,000 genes.
15. Human DNA is 98 percent identical to chimpanzee DNA.
16. Every second, Human Genome Project computers decode 12,000 letters.
17. 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.
18. If you were to stretch out the DNA from those 46 chromosomes in one cell and lay it end to end, it would be over 2 yards in length.
19. Humans are 99.9% genetically identical - only 0.1 of our genetic make-up differs.
20. Less than 2% of the total DNA carries instructions to make proteins. The rest is misleadingly called ‘junk’ DNA, because it is a hodge-podge of sequences that does not seem to code for anything.
21. About 1 in 180 babies is born with a chromosome abnormality. The most common is Down syndrome, followed by Fragile-X syndrome.
22. There are over 200 different types of cells in the human body
23. 3% of the US population has an intellectual disability.
24. There are approximately 23,000 genes in the human genome.
25.There are thought to be about 3 billion base pairs in the human genome.
26. Chromosomal disorders can involve duplication, loss, breakage, or rearrangement of chromosomal material.
27. Yeast has 6,000 genes while the average human has 30,000.
28. We still don't know the function of over 80% of human DNA.
29. Humans share 98% of DNA with monkeys, 90% with mice, 85% with zebra fish, 21% with worms, and 7% with bacteria.
33. All but 2% of DNA is considered "junk DNA" (the 2% non-junk DNA codes for proteins).
30. Siblings share 50% of genes while identical twins share 100%.
31. If unwound and tied together, strands of DNA from a human would be longer than five feet long but only 50 trillionths of an inch in width.
32. Scientists who study karyotypes are called cytogenetisists.
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2. Our entire DNA sequence would fill 200 1,000-page New York City telephone directories.
3. It would take a person typing 60 words per minute, eight hours a day, around 50 years to type the human genome.
4. We eat DNA every day.
5. Many things can cause mutations, including UV irradiation from the sun, chemicals like drugs, etc.
6. If all three billion letters in the human genome were stacked one millimeter apart, they would reach a height 7,000 times the height of the Empire State Building.
7. If the total DNA from one person were laid in a straight line, it would stretch to the sun and pack 30 times! (It is over 93 million miles from Earth to the sun)
8. If the human genome was a book, it would be equivalent to 800 dictionaries.
9. Genes make up only 2-3% of the human genome.
10. It takes about 8 hours for one of your cells to completely copy it's DNA
11. It would take 57 years to recite your ATCGs at a rate of 100 per minuet if you started tomorrow morning.
12. You could fit one million threads of DNA across the period at the end of this sentence.
13. There are three billion (3,000,000,000) base pairs in the DNA code within each cell.
14. Humans have approximately 30,000 genes.
15. Human DNA is 98 percent identical to chimpanzee DNA.
16. Every second, Human Genome Project computers decode 12,000 letters.
17. 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.
18. If you were to stretch out the DNA from those 46 chromosomes in one cell and lay it end to end, it would be over 2 yards in length.
19. Humans are 99.9% genetically identical - only 0.1 of our genetic make-up differs.
20. Less than 2% of the total DNA carries instructions to make proteins. The rest is misleadingly called ‘junk’ DNA, because it is a hodge-podge of sequences that does not seem to code for anything.
21. About 1 in 180 babies is born with a chromosome abnormality. The most common is Down syndrome, followed by Fragile-X syndrome.
22. There are over 200 different types of cells in the human body
23. 3% of the US population has an intellectual disability.
24. There are approximately 23,000 genes in the human genome.
25.There are thought to be about 3 billion base pairs in the human genome.
26. Chromosomal disorders can involve duplication, loss, breakage, or rearrangement of chromosomal material.
27. Yeast has 6,000 genes while the average human has 30,000.
28. We still don't know the function of over 80% of human DNA.
29. Humans share 98% of DNA with monkeys, 90% with mice, 85% with zebra fish, 21% with worms, and 7% with bacteria.
33. All but 2% of DNA is considered "junk DNA" (the 2% non-junk DNA codes for proteins).
30. Siblings share 50% of genes while identical twins share 100%.
31. If unwound and tied together, strands of DNA from a human would be longer than five feet long but only 50 trillionths of an inch in width.
32. Scientists who study karyotypes are called cytogenetisists.
http://dockgenetics.wikispaces.com/Fun+Facts+about+Genetics
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