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Question

The globally programmed "Human Genome Project" deals with:

  1. establishment of a society of super-humans
  2. identification of races based on apartheid
  3. genetic improvement of human races
  4. identification and mapping of human genes and gene sequences

Answer:

Option D: identification and mapping of human genes and gene sequences

Detailed Solution:

The correct answer is “identification and mapping of human genes and gene sequences”.

The Human Genome Project was an international scientific research project with the goal of determining the base pairs that make up human DNA, and of identifying, mapping and sequencing all of the genes of the human genome from both a physical and a functional standpoint.