Gujarat BoardEnglish MediumSTD 12 ScienceBIOLOGYMolecular Basis of Inheritance2 Marks
Question
Why is the Human Genome Project called a megaproject?
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Answer
$\rightarrow$ Human Genome Project is called a megaproject because of the following reasons:
$(1)$ The human genome has $3 \times 10^9$ base$-$pair $9$ approximately and if it is required $3 \ US$ dollars per base pair then its estimated cost will go approximately to $9$ billion $US$ dollars.
$(2)$ If its sequence were stored in a book in the typed form then each page will consist of $1000$ letters and each book will consist of approximately $1000$ pages which led to the formation of $3300$ books from a single human cell. $\rightarrow$ For all this, high computational devices are required for data storage, retrieval and analysis
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