How long is a strand of DNA?
If you unravel a chromosome (which consists of DNA that is tightly wound around proteins called histones along with other proteins to form a very dense and tightly coiled structure and is present during metaphase of the cell division) it would be about a 6 foot long double strand
Citations:http://www.thetech.org/genetics/feature.php
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