![]() ![]() ![]() Made up of chromosomes and genes, DNA contains the information needed to make you. Inside the nucleus of each cell is a meter of DNA. But how exactly do cells coordinate themselves to create a functioning human being? Science still can’t tell us the full story – which is wondrous in itself. The cell is the essential life-giving unit that we’re all made up of. In fact, we can’t even say with certainty where life begins. The miracle of life isn’t something you can create simply by sticking stuff together. All we’d have would be a pile of inert elements. An episode of the science program Nova, broadcast by US network PBS in 2012, pegged the cost of building a human at a mere $168.Įven the cost of the materials for building a human body, then, is uncertain – but more to the point, even with all those materials, the actual act of building a human being would still be beyond us. Those elements would cost you £96,546.79 - labor and taxes not included.īut that’s only one estimate. According to their calculations, you’d need 59 different elements, although only six in any serious quantity – carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorous. ![]() Well, in 2013 the UK’s Royal Society of Chemistry took on the bizarre task of estimating the specific cost of building actor Benedict Cumberbatch. How would you go about it? What building blocks would you need? How much would it cost? ![]() Imagine that you had to build a human being from scratch. ![]()
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