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Watson and Crick discovered DNA's double helix in 1953; the code of life has 3 billion base pairs

UK/USA ๐ŸŒ 1953 Human Body

Key Facts

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    Watson and Crick (1953) described DNA double helix using Rosalind Franklin's X-ray data

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    Human genome: 3.2 billion base pairs, ~20,000 genes; Human Genome Project completed 2003

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    CRISPR-Cas9 (2012): gene-editing tool by Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier โ€” Nobel Prize 2020

๐Ÿ’Š Did you know? If the DNA from a single human cell were uncoiled and stretched out, it would be 2 metres long โ€” the body contains ~37 trillion cells

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Human Body

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๐ŸŒ UK/USA

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1953

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Watson and Crick discovered DNA's double helix in 1953