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Airborne pollutants, especially fine particles (smaller than 2.5 microns, or roughly the width of a strand of a spider web), enter deep into the lungs and from there enter the blood stream, causing cardiopulmonary disease, cancer, and possibly premature births.

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So DNA's entering the production line from the left-hand side, and it hits this collection, these miniature biochemical machines, that are pulling apart the DNA strand and making an exact copy.

One strand can be copied directly, and you can see these things spooling off to the bottom there.

But things aren't so simple for the other strand because it must be copied backwards.

But in each one of your cells, each strand of DNA is about 30 to 40 million nanometers long.

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