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Do women have more DNA than men?
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[QUOTE="Ygggdrasil, post: 5955187, member: 124113"] A diploid human cell contains about 6.5 billion base pairs of DNA. Each X-chromosome is about 0.16 billion base pairs, whereas the Y-chromosome is 0.06 billion base pairs. Therefore, female diploid human cells will contain about 1.5% more DNA than a male diploid human cell. Note that in female human cells, the cells essentially [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-inactivation']crumple up and ignore one copy of their X-chromosome[/URL]s, and only use one copy of their two X-chromosomes, so that extra DNA does not have major effects on cells aside from specifying the sex of the individual. [/QUOTE]
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