THE MOLECULAR BASIS OF INHERITANCE
THE HUMAN GENOME
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Research project that mapped the human genome
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Research project that created the human genome
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Research project where the human genome was broken
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Research project which ended the human genome
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Human Genome Project is an ambitious research effort aimed at deciphering the chemical makeup of the entire human genetic code (i.e., the genome). The primary work of the project is to develop three research tools that will allow scientists to identify genes involved in both rare and common diseases.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Human Genome Project is one of the greatest scientific feats in history. The project was a voyage of biological discovery led by an international group of researchers looking to comprehensively study all of the DNA (known as a genome) of a select set of organisms.
Detailed explanation-3: -The approach used by the members of the IHGSC was called the hierarchical shotgun method, because the team members systematically generated overlapping clones mapped to individual human chromosomes, which were individually sequenced using a shotgun approach (Figure 2).
Detailed explanation-4: -The Human Genome Project, completed in 2003, covered about 92% of the total human genome sequence. The technologies to decipher the gaps that remained didn’t exist at the time.
Detailed explanation-5: -Genome mapping is used to identify and record the location of genes and the distances between genes on a chromosome. Genome mapping provided a critical starting point for the Human Genome Project.