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The Human Genome Project
The project has revealed that there are probably about 20,500 human genes and the information about their structure, organization and function can be "thought of as the basic set of inheritable 'instructions' for the development and function of a human being."
A startling finding of this first draft was that the number of human genes appeared to be significantly fewer than previous estimates, which ranged from 50,000 genes to as many as 1,40,000.
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What is the Human Genome Project?
The Human Genome Project that first realised its goal in 1988 aimed to decipher the human genome in three major ways:
- Determining the order, or "sequence", of all the bases in our genome's DNA
- Making maps that show the locations of genes for major sections of all our chromosome...
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Groundbreaking Discovery
A team of 99 researchers led the groundbreaking discovery by identifying about 115 new genes that code for proteins.
The Telomer...
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Why Did It Take So Long To Decipher The Human Genome?
Scientists identified 3.055 billion base pairs (“letters”) of our DNA code as they made the data public. However, the wait has been over two decades since the first draft was released in 2001. Scientists have known for decades that genes were spread across 23 pairs of chromosomes...
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Scientists decipher the complete human genome & found new genes.
In February 2001, when researchers released the first set of the human genome sequence, it was a seismic event in the history of life sciences. However, it was not truly complete and 15 per cent of the genome was still to be deciphered. The most complicated chunk of DNA called fo...
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What Is A Human Genome?
A genome is an organism's complete set of DNA, the chemical compound that contains the instructions needed to develop and direct the activities of...
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