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  2. Cell (biology) - Wikipedia

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    The number of cells in these groups vary with species; it has been estimated that the human body contains around 37 trillion (3.72×10 13) cells, [7] and more recent studies put this number at around 30 trillion (~36 trillion cells in the male, ~28 trillion in the female).

  3. List of human cell types - Wikipedia

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    On 2021, Stephen Quake guessed that the upper limit of the number of human cell types would be around 6000, based on a reasoning that "if biologists had discovered only 5% of cell types in the human body, then the upper limit of cell types to discover is somewhere around 6000 (i.e., 300/0.05)." [10] Other different efforts have used different ...

  4. Human genome - Wikipedia

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    This represents the size of a composite genome based on data from multiple individuals but it is a good indication of the typical amount of DNA in a haploid set of chromosomes because the Y chromosome is quite small. [7] Most human cells are diploid so they contain twice as much DNA (~6.2 billion base pairs).

  5. Genome size - Wikipedia

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    Genome size ranges (in base pairs) of various life forms. Genome size is the total amount of DNA contained within one copy of a single complete genome.It is typically measured in terms of mass in picograms (trillionths or 10 −12 of a gram, abbreviated pg) or less frequently in daltons, or as the total number of nucleotide base pairs, usually in megabases (millions of base pairs, abbreviated ...

  6. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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    17 μm – minimum width of a strand of human hair [25] 17.6 μm – one twip, a unit of length in typography; 10 to 55 μm – width of wool fibre [93] 25.4 μm – 1/1,000 inch, commonly referred to as 1 mil in the U.S. and 1 thou in the UK; 30 μm – length of a human skin cell; 30.8568 μm – 1 zeptoparsec

  7. Hepatocyte - Wikipedia

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    Anisokaryosis (or variation in the size of the nuclei) is common and often reflects tetraploidy and other degrees of polyploidy, a normal feature of 30-40% of hepatocytes in the adult human liver. [4] Binucleate cells are also common. [citation needed] Hepatocytes are organised into plates separated by vascular channels , an arrangement ...

  8. Brain size - Wikipedia

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    When the neanderthal version of the NOVA1 gene is inserted into stem cells it creates neurons with fewer synapses than stem cells containing the human version. [76] Parts of a cranium found in China in the 1970s show that the young man had a cranial capacity of around 1700 cm 3 at least 160,000 years ago. This is greater than the average of ...

  9. Karyotype - Wikipedia

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    A karyogram or idiogram is a graphical depiction of a karyotype, wherein chromosomes are generally organized in pairs, ordered by size and position of centromere for chromosomes of the same size. Karyotyping generally combines light microscopy and photography in the metaphase of the cell cycle , and results in a photomicrographic (or simply ...