Page 170 - If Darwin Had Known about DNA

Harun Yahya

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enome is the name for the entirety of
the genetic information possessed by a cell-
-and thus, by a living thing. Hundreds of
scientists in some 20 laboratories have been
working for more than a decade to analyze

the genetic information in the DNA mole-
cule in each one of the 100 trillion or so cells
in the human body. The Human Genome
Project, run by an international body con-
sisting of 16 institutions, aims to describe
the whole of the genetic data inside the hu-
man cell and to read all the DNA texts writ-
ten in genetic language. The biologists,
chemists, engineers, computer scientists,
mathematicians and experts in a great
many other fields formed part of this inter-
national project, working to produce a bio-

logical map setting out human beings'
physical characteristics.
Yet despite all these efforts, the tech-
nology for recording the DNA sequence is
still very slow, and recording the DNA se-
quence in a single human chromosome is a
very expensive process--so expensive that