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Most human cells pack ~2 m of DNA into a nucleus just 6 micrometres wide. Scaled across the Human body, that is tens of billions of km — enough to span the Earth–Sun distance hundreds of times. DNA fits by winding around protein spools and compacting about 10,000-fold.
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