Sizeroo

How long is the DNA in one human cell, stretched out?

6.56 ftAbout 2 m · Body-sized

About 6.6 feet (2 m), packed into a nucleus far too small to see.

That's about 1.3 red kangaroos head to toe.

6.56 ft
the biggest hailstone

To scale: the DNA in a cell is about 10× bigger than the biggest hailstone.

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