Question

Statement I: Human Genome Project failed in sequencing the entire genome.
Statement II: The total number of nucleotides in the human genome is around 3 million.

• A. Both statements I and II are correct
• B. Statement I is correct and statement II is incorrect
• C. Statement I is incorrect and statement II is correct
• D. Both statements I and II are incorrect

Answer 1

The correct option is D Both statements I and II are incorrect

The Human Genome Project was a 13-year-old project which started in 1990 and was completed in 2003.

The Human Genome Project aims at finding out the sequence of the entire genome which involves sequencing of all the chromosomes present in the human genome (22 autosomes, X chromosome and Y chromosome).

HGP successfully determined the sequence of the entire human genome which has 3164.7 million base pairs (approximately 3 billion chemical base pairs).

Thus, both statements I and II are incorrect.