According to Wikipedia, the X chromosome has approximately 153 million base pairs, while the Y chromosome has only 60 million base pairs. Thus, the difference is roughly 93 million base pairs.
My question is: Could this "extra" 93 million base pairs in virtually every single female cell of the human body slightly contribute to the "extra" relative weight of the female as a whole, in comparison to a male (of course) with a similar amount of cells? Or would this weight be so small that we can consider it negligible?
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