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Question
Answer the following question.
List the two methodologies which were involved in the human genome project. Mention how they were used.
Solution
2 Methodologies of HGP :
- Expressed Sequence Tags (EST's):
This method focusses on identifying all the genes that are expressed as RNA. - Sequence Annotation:
It is an approach of simply sequencing the whole set of the genome that contains all the coding and non-coding sequences, and later assigning different regions in the sequence with functions.
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