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How human beings were depicted as units of a very complex "software" in The
Matrix was actually not all that far from the truth.

The discovery of DNA is acknowledged
to be one of the most important in the his-
tory of science. In 1953, two young scien-
tists by the name of Francis Crick and

James Watson determined this mole-
cule's existence and structure. In the
half century since then, a significant
part of the scientific world has tried to
understand, decode, and read DNA,
and put it to use. One of the greatest
strides in this effort, the Human

Genome Project, was begun in the 1990s
and completed in 2001. The scientists di-
recting this project sequenced the
human genome—that
is, the totality

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