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The Human Genome Project: The Debate
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The Human Genome Project: The Debate The Human Genome project began in 1990. It was a collaboration movement by the scientific community to better understand our genetic make up. The project involves scientists in many countries, including the Sanger centre in the UK. The project itself is aimed at working out the order of all 3 billion base pairs that make up the human genetic blue print or genome. The human genome is made up of about three billion base pairs, which contain 100,000 genes. Along with this, the project also aims to find the location of the genes on the 23 human chromosomes and store all this information for future research where it can be accessed worldwide. It is hoped that the project will also help develop even better tools for sequencing and analysis. The project not only affects the science world but also affects the business world. The desire...
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