Billions Quote by Jeremy Narby

“…there are approximately 125 billion miles of DNA in a human body -- your personal DNA is long enough to wrap around the earth 5 million times.” quote by Jeremy Narby — Download Open image

“…there are approximately 125 billion miles of DNA in a human body -- your personal DNA is long enough to wrap around the earth 5 million times.”

Jeremy Narby

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