That dude with the beard was the worst fucking part of that show , the other two and the terribly forced jokes were bearable at least . Foust driving was the only good part of the show imo . <| sep |> Mitochondrial DNA contains 16 ' 569 base pairs , coding for 37 genes . The whole haploid human genome is approximately 3 ' 234 ' 830 ' 000 base pairs long , so the mtDNA represents about 0 . 00051 % of our total DNA . The Y chromosome contains 57 ' 227 ' 415 base pairs , so that ' s about 1 . 7691 % of our total DNA . But then , if you ' re talking in terms of biomass or something like that , you might want to consider that all our chromosomes come in two copies per cell except for the sex chromosomes for men , so the actual amount of base pairs per cell is rather around 6 . 5 billion . Every mitochondrion contains 210 copies of the mtDNA , with all the mitochondria in a particular cell together resulting in between 1 ' 000 and 10 ' 000 copies . Does this answer your question ? I ' m not sure what it is you are asking .