Human Form: DNA is a snake-shaped master of transformation that lives in water and is both extremely long and small, single and double.

"The average human being is made up of 100 thousand billion cells, according to some estimates.  This means that there are approximately 125 billion miles of DNA in a human body-corresponding to 70 round trips between Saturn and the Sun. You could travel your entire life in a Boeing 747 at top speed and you would not even cover one hundredth of this distance.  Your personal DNA is long enough to wrap around the earth 5 million times." The Cosmic Serpent, Jeremy Narby

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"The genetic information of a human being, called 'genome', is contained in three billion letter spread out along a single filament of DNA.  In some places, this filament winds around itself to form 23 more compact segments known as 'chromosomes'.  We all inherit a complete set of chromosomes from each of our parents, and so we have 23 pairs of chromosomes.  Each chromosomes is made up of a very long thread of DNA which is already a double message  to begin with- the main text on one ribbon, and the complimentary duplicate on the other.  Thus our cell all contain two complete genomes as well as their backup copies.  Our genetic message is doubly double and contains a total of six billion pairs, or twelve billion letters.  The DNA contained in the nucleus of a human cell is two yards long, and the two ribbons that make up this filament wrap around each other several hundred million times.  As far as its material aspect or its form is concerned, DNA is a doubly double text that wraps around itself.  In other word, it is a "language-twisting-twisting"."  - The Cosmic Serpent, Jeremy Narby