Length of longest chromosome
| Value | 10 cm |
|---|---|
| Organism | Human Homo sapiens |
| Reference | Harvey Lodish, Arnold Berk, Lawrence Zipursky, Paul Matsudaira, David Baltimore, and James Darnell, Molecular Cell Biology, NCBI bookshelf Section 9.5 Organizing Cellular DNA into Chromosomes link |
| Comments | in mammalian cells approximately 2 m of linear DNA have to be packed into a nucleus of roughly 10 µm diameter |
| Entered by | Uri M |
| ID | 102980 |