Name: Lac Operon
Uploaded: 2019-07-19
Duration: 9 min 11 s
Description: A lac operon is a group of genes with a single promoter The genes in the operon encode proteins that allow the bacteria to use lactose as an energy source. L...

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What is Human genome project ? Briefly write about the salient features of Human Genome project.

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The Human Genome Project was a scientific research program initiated in the year 1990. It was a megaproject that lasted for about 13 years. The Human Genome Project (HGP) was concerned with sequencing all the nucleotides (genetic mapping) present in the DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid) of humans.
The Human Genome Project was aimed to sequence the nucleotides digitally, such that the ‘set of genes’ can be stored in the database known as GenBank. The sequencing of genes has opened several opportunities in the field of molecular biology, the evolution of man, and also in the field of medicines.

The Human Genome Project was a very long and huge collaborative project. It involved the genetic mapping of the humans, and the outcomes or features of this project were:

The functions of genes over half of the discovered genes are still unknown.

The proteins present in the genome (set of genes) are coded by only two percent of the genes.

The human genome contains a repetitive sequence of the nucleotides and covers the large part of the genome.

The gene contains approximately three thousand base pairs.

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