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 [-- Human Genome Project --]

 
defined: An international research project to map each human gene and to completely sequence human DNA.

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Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, discusses the Human Genome Project.

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  base pair, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), DNA sequencing, gene, mapping

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