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The Human Genome Project (HGP) was initiated in

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1988
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1990
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1992
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1994
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Solution

The correct option is B 1990
The Human Genome Project was started in 1990 by National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), with the international partners in UK, France, Germany, Japan and China.
Human genome project aims at determining the sequence of nucleotide that makes the whole human DNA. Genome sequencing then has its applications in identification of disease-causing genes and their elimination, to introduce new genes that code for desired protein products and to exploit polymorphism to compare DNA samples from two individuals. Thus, the correct answer is option B.

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