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OpenStudy (anonymous):

what did scientists in the human genome project look for DNA to identifyy the locations of genes

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OpenStudy (anonymous):

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OpenStudy (anonymous):

they looked for adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine. thymine only occurs in dna in rna there is uracil instead. They also discovered rna and mrna

OpenStudy (anonymous):

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OpenStudy (anonymous):

The main objective of the project was to know the complete sequence of human genome. The gene identification is a complicated thing which involve identification of exon, promoters, reading frames etc. most of the human-gene's positions were already identified even before the complete sequencecing: using classical genetics and modern molecular biological techniques

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