BBC - Secret Universe: The SECRET LIFE OF THE CELL - the most AWESOME, breathtaking phenomenon you will ever see. Plus, you learn SCIENCE.

THE MOST INCREDIBLE, MIND-BOGGLING, AWESOME structure of our body. It leaves one breathless.

- Each person is made of 120,000,000,000,000 (120 trillion) cells.

- Cells are the basic building block of living tissues, most fundamental unit of life (smallest unit of what makes us human).

- In EACH cell, a billion (1,000,000,000) microscopic machines all play their part.

- DNA is nucleus of cell, made of genes, containing the instructions for life.

- 6 feet (1.83 meters) of DNA in every cell of our body.

- The double helix of DNA contains over 20,000 instructions that tell our cells what to make and when, how to organize our entire bodies.

I am reminded of Psalm 139

For you created my inmost being;

you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

I praise you

because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

My frame was not hidden from you 

when I was made in the secret place,

when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

Your eyes saw my unformed body;

all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. 

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