Raise your 10 paddles high for Dancing With the Stars judge Len Goodman. The stern British reality TV star, 68, who also hosts BBC1's Strictly Come Dancing, married his long-term girlfriend, dance teacher Sue Barrett, 47, Sunday in a surprise ceremony, reports the Daily Mail.
The total length of the human genome is over 3 billion base pairs. The genome is organized into 22 paired chromosomes, plus the X chromosome (one in males, two in females) and, in males only, one Y chromosome. These are all large linear DNA molecules contained within the cell nucleus.
A single copy of all the chromosomes is referred to as the genome. For example, humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes (for a total of 46 individual chromosomes) and the human genome consists of a single copy of each of those 23 chromosomes. Genome size is measured in terms of weight. The more DNA there is, the greater the weight, and the larger the genome.