3 Sad Surprises: The Human Genome Project
Hank tells us three surprises about human DNA which we learned because of the Human Genome Project. Like SciShow on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Follow SciShow on Twitter: http://www....
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You've heard of the human genome the whole enchilada of genetic information that's encoded in our DNA. But it's more than just genes. It's full of clues to our evolutionary history - our relationships to other animals and a bunch of stuff that we still haven't figured out. The key ingredients to out DNA are 4 chemicals: Adenine, Thymine, Guanine and Cytosine. These are called bases and they pair up together to form long chains of base pairs. And the orders of A's, T's, C's and G's is super important because it dictates whether an organism is a human or a hagfish or something else. Back in 1990, a bunch of scientists decided that if they could figure out the exact sequence of all of the base pairs of the human ge...
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You've heard of the human genome the whole enchilada of genetic information that's encoded in our DNA. But it's more than just genes. It's full of clues to our evolutionary history - our relationships to other animals and a bunch of stuff that we still haven't figured out. The key ingredients to out DNA are 4 chemicals: Adenine, Thymine, Guanine and Cytosine. These are called bases and they pair up together to form long chains of base pairs. And the orders of A's, T's, C's and G's is super important because it dictates whether an organism is a human or a hagfish or something else. Back in 1990, a bunch of scientists decided that if they could figure out the exact sequence of all of the base pairs of the human ge...
