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The length of all the DNA in your body could make hundreds of round trips to the sun.  

If all of your DNA was unbound and straightened out, each cell by itself would have a 6-foot long strand. With approximately 100 trillion cells in the body, that means all the DNA molecules in your body end-to-end could make about 600 trips to the Sun and back! The Earth is approximately 92 million miles away from the Sun. That's a lot of DNA.  



Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is the molecule that stores the biological information and genetic instructions that makes each species unique

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