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2007-10-17 04:32:21 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
it kinda looks like a spiraled helacoil (sp?) in shades of red blue and yellow.
2007-10-17 04:35:54 · answer #1 · answered by civil_seismic_eng 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
DNA resembles a double helix or imagine a ladder that has been twisted. DNA is made up of repeating units called nucleotides. Given that every single cell gets a copy of DNA than there are trillions of DNA strands in the body. I read somewhere that a single strand can be around 600 ft in length. Pretty cool stuff.
2007-10-17 05:10:53 · answer #2 · answered by klemichek 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to one of my biology classes back in the day, if you uncoiled all of the chromosomes in one cell and placed the DNA end-to-end, it would stretch out to about 4 meters long. For something only 46 molecules long, 4m is quite a distance.
2007-10-17 06:16:52 · answer #3 · answered by andymanec 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋