Calculate how many times your DNA would stretch to the moon
June 7th, 2024
If you took all of the nuclear DNA in your body and lined it up end to end, would it be long enough to reach the moon? If so, how many times would it reach the moon and back? (Assume you have 50 trillion cells.) Is it the same for males and females?Calculate how many times your DNA would stretch to the moon and back if you also calculated in the polyploidy that occurs in some cells as well as your mitochondrial DNA. Is this different for males and females?