Did You Know!
If you could stretch out all of the DNA in one human cell, it would be about 6 feet long! And if you were to stretch out the DNA in all the cells of your body, it would span roughly 67 billion miles—that’s enough to reach Pluto and back! Despite its vast length, DNA is incredibly compacted in the nucleus of each cell, coiling around proteins called histones to form structures called chromosomes.
