Part E: Lecture 37

Question 1

M. Sanger only good for _____

Answer 1

single celled organisms

Question 2

genomics (def.)

Answer 2

the study of all of a person’s genes (the genome)

Question 3

major findings of human genome project

Answer 3

-20 000 protein coding genes
-most of our DNA is non-coding (1% exons, 99% introns and space between genes)
-12 000 pseudogenes

Question 4

Human genome project started and ended when _____. It cost ____

Answer 4

1990- 2003
$2.7 billion US

Question 5

De novo sequencing (def.)

Answer 5

sequencing a species for the first time

Question 6

Humans were the _#_th organism sequenced

Answer 6

44th

Question 7

information with genomic projects is found where?

Answer 7

GOLD (Genomes Online Database)

Question 8

most projects by domain studied

Answer 8

bacteria (first)
metagenomics
euk
virus

Question 9

metagenomics (def.)

Answer 9

sequence all DNA from an environment to find out which species are present

Question 10

Sequencing my genome cost

Answer 10

$999 to as low as $399 ($1000)