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Question
Write the percentage of the total human genome that codes for proteins and the percentage of discovered genes whose functions are known as observed during HGP.
Solution
The total number of genes (coding for the protein) in the human genome is 30,000, which is less than 2% of the total genome and almost 50% of the discovered genes have unknown functions.
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