The genomic DNA strand is so long that if a nucleus were the size of a soccer ball, the strand of DNA inside it could be unraveled to stretch more than 30 miles long.
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The genomic DNA strand is so long that if a nucleus were the size of a soccer ball, the strand of DNA inside it could be unraveled to stretch more than 30 miles long.
[…] is huge (I mean really huge) but has to pack itself really small – it does this by wrapping round proteins called histones […]