The Human Genome Project was an international scientific research project with the goal of determining the base pairs that make up human ________.
DNA
RNA
Pancreas
The study and analysis of genomes are called as ________.
Genetics
Gene Therapy
Genomics
The Human Genome Project, which began officially in the year ______.
1990
1996
1998
The HGP was initiated in 1990 under the leadership of American geneticist _________.
John Abelson
Francis Collins
Frederick Alt
Every second, Human Genome Project computers decode how many letters?
12,000
1000
159
A rough draft of the human genome was completed in June of which year?
1997
1999
2000
Human DNA is 98 percent identical to this animal's DNA.
Chimpanzee
Rat
Donkey
The HGP has revealed that there are probably about 200* human genes.
True
False
The International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium published the first draft of the human genome in the journal _________.
Nature
Biomic
Gene
Scientists estimate that the human genome, for example, has about __________ protein-coding genes.
12,000 20,000
20,000 to 25,000
21,999 to 30,000
Which of the following was not the goal of the Human Genome Project?
Identification of human genes
Store information in databases
Improve manpower for data analysis
The major approaches used in HGP for identifying genes were:
Expressed Sequence Tags
Sequence Annotation
Both
The locations in the human genome which differ by a single base difference is known as _________.
Single nucleotide mutation
Single nucleotide polymorphism*
Single nucleotide polymorphogenesis
The largest known human gene is ________ on X chromosome.
Dystrophin protein gene
Sry gene
Cryo gene
The Human Genome Project originally aimed to map the ___________ contained in a human haploid reference genome.
Nucleotides
Chromosomes
Nitrogen
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