What is the Human Genome Project? To understand the HGP one must know what a genome is. A genome is all the DNA in an organism including its genes. The genes carry information for making all the proteins needed by all organisms. The proteins establishes what the organisms looks like , how it fights infection, and how the organisms behave. This is a project with a 13 year effort that was begun in October 1990. this project has …showed first 75 words of 876 total…

…showed last 75 words of 876 total…be known by everyone in the US Or other countries. Because of this being such a large and humankind based project everyone should be informed about how this project is being conducted. If this assignment had never been assigned I never would have known that a 13 year planned project had been under distribution for quite sometime. Now I am informed about it so further in the future it may come as useful information ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**