• Question: how many bio cells are there in a human body

    Asked by #french fries to Lynn, Kevin, Jessica, Jade, Andrew on 15 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Jess Wade

      Jess Wade answered on 15 Jun 2015:

      I didn’t know this one, because I’m not a biologist, so I asked my dad who is a doctor. A cell weighs around 1 nanogram- that’s 0.000000001g. When we make a a loaf of bread we use 500 g of flour ! Oh man, cells are so light.

      Doctors like may dad think there are about 37 trillion cells in our bodies- that’s 37,000,000,000,000. That’s too many to even imagine. If every cell was a human, we’d fill Arsenal’s 60,000 Emirates stadium 617 million times.

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