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       In 1986,    the United       States Department  Energy                  first  proposed      the ambitious          goal  sequencina
       human genome.

                    On June 26, 2000,                   the then US  President                   released        the first draft         of  the


                    Human Genome Sequence



                   Just 50        years     since DNA structure was discovered                                in    2003,        the


                  complete            human        qenome sequence                   w s  made avail ble.


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                       Co-discoverer of DNA              Structure:

                                                                                                         DECODING THE
                                                                                                          BoOK OF LIFE

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          Which of the fo|lowing animals' genomes are sequenced?



                                          Rice


                                          Dolphin



                                       Mosquito

                                                                                                 Did    you     know that only            2%   of  the
                                          Chimpanzee
                                                                                                 human genome codes for genes
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