The DNA molecule in humans and primates consists of two threads that wrap around each other so that they resemble the twisted spiral, which is connected to its sides, composed of sugar and phosphate molecules, by the tributaries of nitrogen-containing chemicals called bases A and T. C and G. These rules are repeated millions or billions of times in all parts of the genome. The human genome, for example, contains three billion pairs of these bases, while the human body contains about 100 trillion (100 billion, 000,000,000) cell!
* The exact order of letters A, T, C and G is very important. This arrangement defines all aspects of biological diversity. In this order, the genetic code is the same as the order in which words are made. Characters Identifies the fact that this organism is a human being or belongs to another living species such as yeast or fruit fly, for example, each of which has its own genome and has been the focus of several private genetic research.
Because all living things are related to common relationships through similarities in some sequences of DNA, the insights we get from non-human organisms enable us to gain more understanding and knowledge of human biology.
* Each group of three of the four letters represents a specific amino acid, and there are 20 different building units - amino acids - used in a vast array of combinations to produce our proteins. Different combinations have different proteins in turn in our bodies.
* The information contained in the human genome is enough to fill paper books with a height of 61 meters, equivalent to the information contained in 200 phone directories containing 500 pages!
* Among us humans, DNA differs from one individual to another by only 5.2%, or 1 in every 50 characters, taking into account that human cells contain two copies of the genome.
* If we want to read the human genome at a speed of one character per second for 24 hours a day, it will take a whole century to finish reading the book of life!
* If two different people start to read each other's life book at a speed of one character per second, it will take about eight and a half minutes (500 seconds) before they reach the first difference in the order of their letters!
* Typist, who writes at 60 words per minute (about 360 characters) and for eight hours a day, needs half a century to finish printing the book of life!
* Human DNA is similar to chimpanzees by 98%.
The estimated number of genes in both humans and mice is 60,000- 100,000. In roundworms, there are 19,000 and in yeast the number of genes is about 6,000, while the number of germs that cause tuberculosis is 4,000.
* The function of the vast majority (97%) of DNA in the human genome remains unknown to us so far.
* The first chromosome chromosome was fully decoded, chromosome 22, in the United Kingdom in December 1999, specifically at the Sanger Center in Cambridge.
* The length of DNA in each of our cells is 1.8 meters, stacked in a mass of 0.0001 centimeters (which can easily be placed in the size of a pinhead).
* If all the DNA in the human body is part of a party, the resulting thread can reach from Earth to the Sun and vice versa 600 times [100 trillion x 1.8 m divided by 148.800.000 km = 1200].
* Researchers in the Human Genome Project decode 12,000 letters of human DNA a second.
* If all three-billionths of the human genome are each 1 mm apart, it will extend to 3,000 kilometers - or about 700 times the height of the Empire State Building, New York's famous skyscraper.
* The exact order of letters A, T, C and G is very important. This arrangement defines all aspects of biological diversity. In this order, the genetic code is the same as the order in which words are made. Characters Identifies the fact that this organism is a human being or belongs to another living species such as yeast or fruit fly, for example, each of which has its own genome and has been the focus of several private genetic research.
Because all living things are related to common relationships through similarities in some sequences of DNA, the insights we get from non-human organisms enable us to gain more understanding and knowledge of human biology.
* Each group of three of the four letters represents a specific amino acid, and there are 20 different building units - amino acids - used in a vast array of combinations to produce our proteins. Different combinations have different proteins in turn in our bodies.
* The information contained in the human genome is enough to fill paper books with a height of 61 meters, equivalent to the information contained in 200 phone directories containing 500 pages!
* Among us humans, DNA differs from one individual to another by only 5.2%, or 1 in every 50 characters, taking into account that human cells contain two copies of the genome.
* If we want to read the human genome at a speed of one character per second for 24 hours a day, it will take a whole century to finish reading the book of life!
* If two different people start to read each other's life book at a speed of one character per second, it will take about eight and a half minutes (500 seconds) before they reach the first difference in the order of their letters!
* Typist, who writes at 60 words per minute (about 360 characters) and for eight hours a day, needs half a century to finish printing the book of life!
* Human DNA is similar to chimpanzees by 98%.
The estimated number of genes in both humans and mice is 60,000- 100,000. In roundworms, there are 19,000 and in yeast the number of genes is about 6,000, while the number of germs that cause tuberculosis is 4,000.
* The function of the vast majority (97%) of DNA in the human genome remains unknown to us so far.
* The first chromosome chromosome was fully decoded, chromosome 22, in the United Kingdom in December 1999, specifically at the Sanger Center in Cambridge.
* The length of DNA in each of our cells is 1.8 meters, stacked in a mass of 0.0001 centimeters (which can easily be placed in the size of a pinhead).
* If all the DNA in the human body is part of a party, the resulting thread can reach from Earth to the Sun and vice versa 600 times [100 trillion x 1.8 m divided by 148.800.000 km = 1200].
* Researchers in the Human Genome Project decode 12,000 letters of human DNA a second.
* If all three-billionths of the human genome are each 1 mm apart, it will extend to 3,000 kilometers - or about 700 times the height of the Empire State Building, New York's famous skyscraper.
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