Here are some fun numbers from the NIH website (reduced to a skeleton, LOL)
- 3.2 billion base pairs for DNA
- 20,000 genes make 100,000 proteins
- DNA unwound in one cell placed end to end = 67 billion miles
- DNA from any two people are 99.9% identical
- One third of our genes are managed by microRNAs
- 98% of our DNA is not understood at this point