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.
(Genome size is usually measured in picograms [pg] and then converted to nucleotide number. One pg is equivalent to approximately 1 billion base pairs.) Therefore, genome size is clearly not an indicator of the genomic or biological complexity of an organism. Otherwise, humans would have at least as much DNA as the marbled lungfish, although probably much more.