Hi Tuluinga, I enjoyed reading about your experience staining your cheek cells and also looking at the photos of the experiment. It is pretty amazing to see how tiny the cells are that we are made from. By the time you are an adult you will have around 37 trillion cells in your body. Remember, you just started out as a single cell! Could you see the nucleus as a little dark dot in the middle of your cheek cells? Isn't it incredible to think that within that extremely small nucleus there is a copy of all the DNA that makes you the way you are (and that if stretched out from that single cell, the DNA would be 2 meters long).
Hi Tuluinga,
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading about your experience staining your cheek cells and also looking at the photos of the experiment. It is pretty amazing to see how tiny the cells are that we are made from. By the time you are an adult you will have around 37 trillion cells in your body. Remember, you just started out as a single cell! Could you see the nucleus as a little dark dot in the middle of your cheek cells? Isn't it incredible to think that within that extremely small nucleus there is a copy of all the DNA that makes you the way you are (and that if stretched out from that single cell, the DNA would be 2 meters long).