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The impact of the Human Genome Project on cancer research

Human Genome Project (HGP), an international collaboration that successfully determined, stored, and rendered publicly available the sequences of almost all the genetic content of the chromosomes of the human organism, otherwise known as the human genome. The Human Genome Project (HGP), which

human genome Summary

Human genome, all of the approximately three billion base pairs of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) that make up the entire set of chromosomes of the human organism. The human genome includes the coding regions of DNA, which encode all the genes (between 20,000 and 25,000) of the human organism, as well

Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher Summary

Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher was a British statistician and geneticist who pioneered the application of statistical procedures to the design of scientific experiments. In 1909 Fisher was awarded a scholarship to study mathematics at the University of Cambridge, from which he graduated in 1912 with a

In DNA fingerprinting, fragments of DNA are separated on a gel using a technique called electrophoresis. This creates a pattern that can be analyzed and that is unique to each individual, with the exception of identical twins.

DNA fingerprinting Summary

DNA fingerprinting, in genetics, method of isolating and identifying variable elements within the base-pair sequence of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). The technique was developed in 1984 by British geneticist Alec Jeffreys, after he noticed that certain sequences of highly variable DNA (known as