nucleus in neat little circles. Scientists now believe that electrons fly all over the place, like bees swarming around a hive. Since cells are made up of atoms, I once asked a friend of mine, who does cancer research, how many skin cells am I looking at if I look at the tiniest thing I can see on my skin. I thought he’d say a few thousand cells. He said I’d be looking at least half a million skin cells! And, as you know, inside every cell is our DNA which is made up of over 70 billion atoms, and over three billion DNA codes, and that is only a small portion of each cell. T his doesn’t count the many sub-atomic particles that scientists say make up each atom, such as the electrons, protons, neutrons, etc. Did you know that to count all of the atoms in just one cell of your body, at one per second, would take you over 300,000 thousand years? Every cell in your body contains DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), which contains the genetic blueprint for your entire body, similar
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