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    including the development of life saving drugs. Now, scientists are creating technology that could use entirely synthesized rather than copied DNA for editing. The Genome Project-Write (GP-Write) is currently working on synthesizing the DNA of humans. Within the next few years, the initiative plans to have synthesized all genes in the human genome. This would allow large rewritings of DNA, thereby opening possibilities for treating and preventing disease as well as creating cells and organs. While saving

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    The Implications of the Human Genome Project on Human Health: Focus on Cancer research Abstract: This essay investigate the implication of the Human Genome Project on human health, focusing on cancer research, the consequences faced by the Human Genome Protect and further examine how far science has come in liking genetic factors to human diseases. The paper outlines how the launch of the project has aided disease researchers with information needed to link genomes to human diseases and also find

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    Understanding our life as we know it must start at the basics with our own DNA. DNA is the building blocks for all life, so to understand life we must analyze the mechanism of genetics. Projects like the Human Genome project and Encyclopedia of DNA elements (ENCODE) analyzes DNA to give society an interpretation of what the building code is and means. Our genetic code holds coding and non-coding sequences, at first researchers focused solely on coding DNA for it carried the function and means to

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    So what is a human genome and why is the government researching it? The Human genome is the sequence of roughly 20,000 genes that make up human Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), or the building blocks that tell cells what to do. The government project named Human Genome Project (HGP) started in 1990’s, and is trying to unravel the 3 billion chemical base pairs in a DNA strand (http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/physician-resources/medical-science/genetics-molecular-medicine/current-topics/human-genome.shtml

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    This could be illustrated in the Human Genome Project, which mapped all human genes in order to eventually understand the effect of each gene in human behaviour. Wallace (2004) claims that the Human Genome Project is perhaps not ethically neutral. Misuse of ethically sensible data was already seen in Nazi Germany and the eugenic policies in many modern societies with practices such as sterilization of individuals thought to be inferior. This should serve as a warning to modern geneticists. First

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    In 1990, the science world began a vigorous new exploration of human DNA- the Human Genome Project. The goal of this project was to map out all the human genes (An Overview of, 2015), which ultimately led to a deeper understanding of all genes, not just a human’s. This deeper understanding also helped scientists to progress further in the technology of recombinant DNA. Recombinant DNA is when DNA from different cells is spliced together, creating a new strand (Kuure-Kinsey, 2000). Recombinant DNA

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    this science of the Human Genome Project and cloning is going to take us. Apparently we are not so ignorant after all. This is why JAH and Jesus Christ emphasized on us to keep watch, I am saying this because who do you thinks will be the lab rats, definitely not the white man… you get the picture. The Human Genome Project also referred to as HGP, has really captivated the world at the birth of the 21st Century and it has surely revolutionized the biology field. The project itself commenced officially

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    be idealized human assets? I believe that given the opportunity as humans we should have the option to create and enhance our new and stronger genetic line for our offspring as a way to improve the human design. In many cases such as The Human Genome Project led by James Watson, a pioneer in genetics, initially started out as searching for cures to genetic ailments, but like many experiments it became less focused on cures and was driven more towards enhancements. In this essay I will be discussing

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    Answer: Generally the genome is a life form's finished situated of DNA, including the greater part of its qualities. Every genome contains the majority of the information expected to build and keep up that living being. In people, a duplicate of the whole genome more than 3 billion DNA base pairs is contained in all cells that have a nucleus. Question No. 3 Answer: According to the human genome project which was completed in 2000; there are about 25000 genes in human genome and there are trillions

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    discuss all of the benefits of discovering the human genome using mostly an emotional appeal even though it is a documentary about science. The definition of a genome is described on the human genome project government website “A genome is an organism's complete set of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), a chemical compound that contains the genetic instructions needed to develop and direct the activities of every organism” ( National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)). DNA is extremely complex

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