The haploid human genome contains approximately 3 billion base pairs of DNA packaged into 23 chromosomes. Of course, most cells in the body (except for female ova and male sperm) are diploid, with 23 pairs of chromosomes. That makes a total of 6 billion base pairs of DNA per cell. Because each base pair is around 0.34 nanometers long (a nanometer is one-billionth of a meter), each diploid cell therefore contains about 2 meters of DNA [(0.34 × 10-9) × (6 × 109)]. Moreover, it is estimated that the human body contains about 50 trillion cells—which works out to 100 trillion meters of DNA per human. Now, consider the fact that the Sun is 150 billion meters from Earth. This means that each of us has enough DNA to go from here to the Sun and back m LINKED HERE.
More trivia: Chromosomes labeled with fluorescent probes for sequences on the p arm near a telomere, suggests that the chromosomes may have some areas of the p arm which are more prominently located at the periphery of each of their respective chromosome territories. This suggests some sort of coordinates for order of the all chromosome territories within the nucleus. Published as this article: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/8469152_Zimber_A_Nguyen_QD_Gespach_C_Nuclear_bodies_and_compartments_functional_roles_and_cellular_signaling_in_health_and_disease_Cell_Signal_16_1085-1104
Just thinking about what images i have seen, i have this suspicion that each pair of chromosomes is linked at some point to a pair of nuclear pores (maybe on the p arm near telomers) and that the distance between the pair is something on the order of about 75 degrees (as an arc) apart and that extensions to the various nucleoli for transcription are ordered as well. most of that sentence is found in articles, except the radial separation..at least I haven’t seen reference to that yet. Maybe not all chromosomes are separated by the same angle… looking at images visually, it is easy to be mislead because of the random flattening of nuclei during preparation for fluorescent dye labeling.
here is an image from an review article Meaburn and Misteli which shows three green line trackings. The central image from that would fit the TEM images of nuclear chromatin (at least condensed chromatin) best.