Why or why not should you or your unborn child get tested with the human genome? Adults are faced with many choices as parents. To get the testing done it may be hard for some people it does cost a lot of money. For example, the project can tell you if your unborn child has a genetic disorder or not but doing the testing may lead to a miscarriage with the child. The human genome project is the world's largest biological project. The original name of the project was the human genome initiative. The human genome project was an effort to try to figure out the DNA sequencing of the whole human genome. The human project has help scientist to start to understand the blueprint for building a person. The scientist learn more about the function of genes and proteins. With this knowledge there will be a major impact in the fields of medicine and life science (www.genome.gov/11006943). The estimated cost of the project was three billion dollars but it only ended up costing around two point seven billion dollars. The
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They were a private company. They used the shotgun approach which is that it requires no prior mapping. The disadvantage of this method was that large genomes need large amounts of computer power to reassemble the genome from its fragments. Sequencing was invented by frederick sanger in 1995. Sager was an english biochemist (www.brown.edu).
The project can assemble twelve thousands bases every minute that is 720,000 per hour. The scientist determine that the sequence of three billion chemical bases that make up a person. They estimated fifty thousands to one hundred thousands genes in human DNA. THe human genome project covered ninety percent of the genome by the end of 2001. All human are 99.9% genetically identical. The United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Japan and China all have research programs for the human genome project.
They were a private company. They used the shotgun approach which is that it requires no prior mapping. The disadvantage of this method was that large genomes need large amounts of computer power to reassemble the genome from its fragments. Sequencing was invented by frederick sanger in 1995. Sager was an english biochemist (www.brown.edu).
The project can assemble twelve thousands bases every minute that is 720,000 per hour. The scientist determine that the sequence of three billion chemical bases that make up a person. They estimated fifty thousands to one hundred thousands genes in human DNA. THe human genome project covered ninety percent of the genome by the end of 2001. All human are 99.9% genetically identical. The United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Japan and China all have research programs for the human genome project.