Happy DNA Day
If you stretched out all the DNA in your body, it would reach from the Earth to the Sun and back about 600 times!
About 98% of your DNA doesn’t code for proteins it was once called “junk DNA,” but now we know it plays important regulatory and structural roles.
Humans share about 60% of their DNA with bananas meaning we’re more genetically connected to the natural world than we might think!
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