The Code of Life
Christopher Michael
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Inside every one of the approximately 37 trillion cells in your body, coiled tightly within a nucleus smaller than the width of a human hair, there exists a molecule of staggering complexity and profound consequence. Stretched end to end, the DNA in a single human cell would extend roughly two meters. The DNA in all your cells combined would reach from Earth to the Sun and back more than sixty times. Yet this enormous molecular library is packed into spaces invisible to the naked eye, organized with extraordinary precision, copied with near-perfect fidelity, and decoded with elegant efficiency billions of times each day.
This molecule is deoxyribonucleic acid — DNA. It is the master blueprint, the operating system, the ancestral archive, and the instruction manual of every living thing on Earth. It determines whether you are a bacterium or a blue whale, whether you have brown eyes or blue, whether you are susceptible to certain diseases, and in complex ways science is only beginning to untangle, aspects of who you are as a person.
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