Essays on Human Genome Project

The rediscovery of Mendel's works on heredity in 1900 became the foundation to investigate more on genetics. However, the acceleration of the study of genetics was slow, taking more than half a century later for Watson and Crick to crack the chemical basis of heredity. In fact, their proposal, the double helical structure of DNA, became the beginning of modern biology. Over the next 30 years, the advent of recombinant DNA technology allowed us to sequence specific DNA segments (Collins & McKusick, 2001). Note that mapping specific regions of a particular DNA offers explanations to many traits, including behaviors, disorders, ...

According to Palladino (2006), the Human Genome Project (HGP) was a scientific research project carried out internationally for thirteen years. This project was initiated by the U.S government with the support of other contributors such as public and private researchers with the goal of tracing and mapping nucleotides as found in the human Haploid Reference Genome. In other words the project was driven by the need and interest to collect information about the human genome. In this regard, the project was carried out in order to determine the sequence followed by chemical base pairs which are responsible for the ...

I am an individual with varied interests. However, I have always remained fascinated by the science of the DNA Double Helix.  My fascination in DNA Double Helix and its functionality goes back to the 6th grade when I stumbled over my cousin’s biology assignments on the structure and functionality of the DNA Double Helix. I remember asking him to explain it to me. He said a lot of staff I could not understand then, but the only thing that caught my attention is conservative nature of DNA Double Helix. My focus on the DNA Double Helix grew fonder ...