I am doing a paper for school and it says to compare the amount of DNA in a human liver cell to the amount in a human kidney cell. I have looked all through my book and found nothing. Please Help!!
2007-01-03 06:13:17 · 5 answers · asked by Kocoa 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Your teacher is a tricky SOB. Some liver cells are binucleate (they have two nuclei) and twice the amount of DNA as other somatic cells like kidney cells.
2007-01-03 06:18:28 · answer #1 · answered by ivorytowerboy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I was a teenager, I liked that idea too. A couple of problems with it: a) Plant cells are set up to support chloroplasts, and animal cells aren't. I'm betting that the chloroplasts depend on nuclear DNA in the plants for a lot of their construction. b) Chloroplasts are big. An animal cell could fit, maybe, one or two. Plant cells are much much bigger than animal cells, and can fit dozens of chloroplasts.
2016-03-29 06:09:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most human cells contain about 6 picograms DNA
2007-01-07 02:17:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Same amount. All cells have the same amount of DNA. This differ because of the histones which block expression of parts of the DNA, but all cells have the same sequences of DNA for a given person.
2007-01-03 06:15:38 · answer #4 · answered by Radagast97 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They are the same. Both cells have double 23 chromosomes, a set of which contails about 2 billion base pairs.
2007-01-03 06:16:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋