The Human Genome Project was a massive scientific undertaking meant to identify and sequence all of the genes found In a human cell. This is just one example of genomics, the branch of biology that studies whole genomes, which are the complete sets of DNA found within organisms. One of the interesting conclusions from this project was that only about 1.5% of human DNA encodes for proteins. Although it was groundbreaking for its time, it is now fairly routine to completely sequence the DNA of an organism using the whole-genome shotgun method. In this method, the DNA is chopped up with restriction enzymes, the fragments are sequenced, and then they are reassembled into one continuous sequence. Through such analyses, scientists are learning much about human DNA and its relation to other species.
Human Genome Project was very important research that contribute to the history of genetics research. Because of this project, scientists learned more about the functions of genes and proteins, which will help them improve the fields of medicine, biotechnology, and the life sciences.
