Process of HGP
Trending Questions
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What is the point of genome sequencing?
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Can DNA fragments be seen directly?
Q. Which of the following can be used as a vector for DNA sequencing?
- Bacteria
- Plasmodium
- Yeast
- Paramecium
Q. What is the necessity of transferring human genome to Bacterial Artificial Chromosomes (BACs), and why are BACs specifically used in Human Genome Project?
- BAC is the only vector that can hold the whole human genome
- Human genome can be cut into sizes up to 200, 000 base pairs and kept in BACs
- Sanger’s method cannot be used on DNA fragments bigger than few thousands base pairs
- BACs are an integral part of the Sanger’s method of DNA sequencing
- BACs could be used in amplification of fragments of human genome
