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How did the Human Genome Project result in more rapid, less expensive DNA-sequencing technology?
To determine: How the “Human Genome Project” resulted in the development of a more rapid and less expensive DNA-sequencing technology.
Introduction: Human Genome Project was a collaborative international effort to determine the sequence of all the bases that make up human beings and also to locate the position of each gene on the chromosomes.
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The main goal of the Human Genome Project was to sequence the entire nucleotide sequence of each chromosome. Determining the sequence of 3 billion base pairs was a challenging task. The process of determining the sequence of nucleotide bases in a piece of DNA is called DNA sequencing. The sequencing technology that could sequence them at a faster rate was required. This led to the development of less expensive and faster DNA-sequencing technology.
The need to sequence the entire genome economically and at a faster rate led to the development of high throughput sequencing, a sequencing method that generates a large amount of data in a very short period of time.
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