Human Genome Project

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The Human Genome Project Base pairs on a DNA molecule

The genetic information in an organism is called its genome. The Human Genome Project, or HGP for short, was started at the end of the last century. It was very ambitious and had several aims, including:

to work out the order or sequence of all the three billion base pairs in the human genome

to identify all the genes

to develop faster methods for sequencingDNA

The sequencing project was finished in 2001, and work continues to identify all the genes in the human genome. The HGP used the DNA of several people to get a sort of average sequence, but each person has a unique sequence (unless they have an identical twin).

The Human Genome project