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Biology Essay: The Future Impact That the Human Genome Project Will Have on Our Lives The Human Genome Project (HGP) is an international combined research program whose objective is to find out the complete mapping and understanding of all the genes in human beings. All our genes together are known as our 'genome', hence the term Human Genome Project. The main goals of the project are to: * Identify all the approximate 30,000 genes in the 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 * Transfer related technologies to the private sector, and * Address the Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues (ELSI) that may arise from the project. To help reach these goals, researchers are also studying the genetic makeup of other nonhuman organisms such as the bacterium in the human gut known as Ascherichia...

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