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Your life-cycle

You started life as a cell, smaller than a pin-prick. This divided into two, then four, then eight - and so on. Your whole body is now made up of about a 100 million million cells: just one teaspoon of your blood contains about 25 billion red blood cells.

You are made up of millions of cells.
You are made up of millions of cells.
Yorgos Nikas / Gareth Read / Corbis / Comstock

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