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A MIRACULOUS SYSTEM CREATED FOR A NEW LIFE

advanced and complex structure in the world; if we compare it with such
a factory we can say that, in order for this factory to continue operating,
it must have all the information stored in the DNA molecule in the nucle-
us of the cell.
While a human being is still a newly fertilised egg cell in his mother's
womb, God determines all the qualities that he will have in the future and
imprints them in the DNA molecules. From his hair colour to his height,
from the illness he is prone to throughout his life to every imaginable
physical characteristic every human quality is preserved carefully, but in
a size so small that it can be seen only by an electron microscope.
DNA is found in every one of the approximately 100 trillion cells of
our body. The average diameter of a cell is 10 microns (one micron is one
thousandth of a millimeter); if we think about this, we can more easily un-
derstand how much information is stored in such a small space.
If we think of DNA, which allows the life of living things to continue

Chromosomes

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