The Greatest Biological Development in Science History
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Description: Article about the human genome and its discovery. Includes diagram of the biological Rosetta Stone and a table of human genome statistics.
The Greatest Biological Development in Science History cientists have cracked the code, the longest, tiniest imaginable, most important, oldest code: the code of human life, the DNA sequence of humanity. The numerics are staggering: written in just a four-letter alphabet (A, T, C, G), the human genome is around 3 billion letters long (or about one billion "words" in length since each word (a codon) is three letters long), and there are around 600 billion-trillion copies of it on Earth (6 billion people times 100 trillion cells per person). It took about 3 billion years to create (the age of life on Earth) and only 15 years to decipher if one starts at the beginning of the Human Genome Project. Alternatively, it might be argued that it has taken several 100,000 years (the age of
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| Page title: | The Human Genome Discovery |
| Keywords: | human genome,genomes,genetics,genetic code,gene,genes,Human Genome Project,nucleotide,nucleotides,International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium, Francis Collins,Celera Genomics,Craig Venter,chromosomes,chromosome,amino acid,thymine,cytosine,adenine,guanine,DNA,sequence,RNA,nucleic acids,polymorphisms,junk DNA,SNP,SNPs,exon,intron,exons,introns |
| Description: | The Genome of Homo sapiens |
| IP-address: | 98.136.187.13 |