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DNA is a macromolecule (a nucleic acid). DNA codes for all of your traits (characteristics). It’s what makes you, you. A human cheek cell has so much DNA in it that if it was stretched out it would be
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DNA is a macromolecule (a nucleic acid). DNA codes for all of your traits (characteristics). It’s what makes you, you. A human cheek cell has so much DNA in it that if it was stretched out it would be about 6 feet long. If it’s so long, how can it fit in a microscopic cell do you think?

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The DNA is not 1 dimensional, all of the DNA fits inside of a 3-d microscopic cell allowing it to have 3 squared amount the times of space.

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a straight line will have more length than 3-d sphere because the sphere has to account for width and depth as well.

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