The Human Genome Project:
The human Genome Project was completed in 2003 and was a 13 year project coordinated by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health.
The goals of this project:
-identify all the approximately 20,000-25,000 genes in human DNA
-determine the sequences of the 3 billion chemical base pairs that make up human DNA,
-store this information in databases
-improve tools for data analysis
& other.
Though the HGP is finished, analyses of the data will continue for many years. Diagram below is the Human genome diagram.
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