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In human body (by the way all life forms except some viruses.) contains DNA in their nucleus. This DNA is made up of Pentose sugars attached to Phosphates in alternate manner and long thread is formed. Such two strands are there in DNA molecule.

To the sugar molecules, you have 4 different types of bases are attached. They are two Purines and two Pyrimidines. Purines are Adenine and Guanine and Pyrimidines are Thymine and Cytosine.

So Adenine get attached to Thymine only and Cytosine is attached to Guanine, only by loose hydrogen bond. So you have to parallel (Actually called 'Anti-parallel, as they have reverse direction.) strands of sugars and phosphate and in between adenine-guanine, guanine-adenine, thymine-cytosine,cytosine-thymine bases.

So you have 4 options in hand and you want 22 codes. One each for 20 amine acid and one each for start and stop signal. So you take next 4 options. It makes 4*4=16 options. Not enough to direct 22 codes. So you take next 4 options. Now you have 4*4*4=64 options. So such three base pairs make a codon. Now Chromosome is made up of 'single' thread of very very long DNA molecule in what is called as double helical structure. Which is bonded in higher animals with a protein called 'Hi-stone'. With start codon gene starts and with stop codon, it stops. In between three is long series of codons which direct 'specific' amine acid. There may be between about 40 to 4000 codons in a single 'gene'. So you have many of them in 'series' in a single chromosome.

You do not know the exact number of genes. But it is some where between 20,000 to 25,000. Together they carry complete information of the individual. (Round worm also have the same number of genes.) But permutations and combinations make all the difference.

You have 23 pairs of chromosomes in every body cell in the 'nucleus'. (You have 100 trillion cells in your body and all of them have same copies of genes in their nucleus and 25 trillion of them are red blood cells, who do not have nucleus in them in adult form and so no genes in them.)

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