Cancer Causes, Symptoms and treatment
There are over 10,000,000,000,000 cells in your body. Although these cells can do different jobs, each one has a nucleus with the same set of 46 chromosomes.
Yet all of this came from a single cell with one set of 46 chromosomes. Within about 6 minutes of fertilization, this cell copied itself to make two cells. This was your first experience of mitosis. Soon after, these two cells copied themselves to make four and so on. You have been subject to mitosis ever since (billions of times).
By copying the original 46 chromosomes, your body has created more than a hundred billion kilometers of DNA - that's enough to stretch around the Earth 2,500 times. Mitosis has copied a total of about 100 ZB of data. As a rough estimate, this is equivalent to making a million copies of all the hard drives in the world. [1 ZB is a zeta byte of data. This is 1 with twenty four zeros after it].However, although this is an amazing feat, it does sometimes go......
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