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Chapter 21, Problem 10TY
Which of the following was not a goal of the Human Genome Project?
- a. identify all human genes
- b. sequence the entire human genome
- c. address the legal and ethical implications resulting from the project
- d. develop programs to manage the information gathered from the project
- e. be able to clone a human
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