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Q.Write the main goals of Human Genome Project.

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The Human Genome Project set out to map, sequence and understand every gene in the human genome, and to make that knowledge accessible and ethically managed.

Launched as a major international collaborative effort, the Human Genome Project's stated goals included: identifying all the approximately 20,000-25,000 genes present in human DNA; determining the precise sequence of the roughly 3 billion chemical base pairs that make up the human genome; storing this vast amount of information in databases openly accessible to researchers worldwide; improving the tools and technologies needed for large-scale DNA sequencing and data analysis; transferring these technologies to related industries and applications; and, importantly, addressing the ethical, legal and social issues (ELSI) that could arise from having det …

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