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an organized international scientific endeavour to determine the complete structure of human genetic material (DNA), identify all the genes, and to understand their function
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Human Genome Project — The Human Genome Project (HGP) was an international scientific research project with a primary goal to determine the sequence of chemical base pairs which make up DNA and to identify the approximately 25,000 genes of the human genome from both a… … Wikipedia
Human Genome Project — a federally funded U.S. scientific project to identify both the genes and the entire sequence of DNA base pairs that make up the human genome. [1985 90] * * * U.S. research effort initiated in 1990 by the U.S. Department of Energy and the… … Universalium
Human Genome Project — Das Humangenomprojekt (HGP, engl. Human Genome Project) wurde im Herbst 1990 mit dem Ziel gegründet, das Genom des Menschen vollständig zu entschlüsseln, d. h. die Abfolge der Basenpaare in der menschlichen DNA auf ihren einzelnen Chromosomen… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Human Genome Project — a massive international research project to elucidate the entire sequence of genes on all the human chromosomes. The human genome comprises some 3000 million nucleotide base pairs (see DNA) forming about 30,000 genes, distributed between 23 pairs … Medical dictionary
Human Genome Project — noun an international scientific project to identify and map the genes of the human genome, based in the US; begun in 1990; first complete results released in 2003 with continuing analysis; potential applications in medicine and other areas.… …
Human Genome Project, the — Human Genome ,Project, the a plan to discover and record everything that can be known about human DNA (=genetic material) by examining the order and structure of genes … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
Human Genome Project:Road Map for Science and Medicine — ▪ 2001 Introduction by Judith L. Fridovich Keil Certain to rank among the all time landmarks of human technical achievement, the completion of a rough draft of the sequence of the human nuclear genome was announced in June 2000. Its… … Universalium
Human Genome Project — Projet génome humain Pour les articles homonymes, voir PGH. Le Projet Génome Humain est un projet entrepris en 1990 dont la mission était d établir le séquençage complet de l ADN du génome humain. Son achèvement a été annoncé en avril 2003[1]. Le … Wikipédia en Français
Human Genome Project — International effort aimed at identifying and sequencing (ordering) all of the bases in the human genome. American participation in this monumental undertaking has been supported by funds from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the… … Medical dictionary
Human Genome Project — a massive international research project to elucidate the entire sequence of genes on all the human chromosomes. The human genome comprises some 3000 million nucleotide base pairs (see DNA) forming about 30,000 genes, distributed between 23 pairs … The new mediacal dictionary
Human Genome Project — Hu′man Ge′nome Proj ect n. gen a scientific project to identify both the genes and the entire sequence of DNA base pairs that make up the human genome • Etymology: 1985–90 … From formal English to slang
