Human Genome Project
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Proyecto del Genoma Humano
- Humans have a penchant for mapping things, and the big map we've made for humans is the Human Genome Project, where with genomics we've mapped out our DNA.
- Human Genome Project (HGP)
- U.S. Human Genome Project
This was already, at the time of the publication of this scientific paper, a much heralded achievement of the Human Genome Project.
- This was already, at the time of the publication of this scientific paper, a much heralded achievement of the Human Genome Project.
Examples
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For example, one finding of the Human Genome Project was that humans have a substantial amount of bacterial DNA that was passed into humans through lateral gene transfer.
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Most of all, think of what the human genome project is telling us.
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The Human Genome Project is almost complete.
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The final focus area of the exhibit is devoted to the Human Genome Project, an effort to map the entire DNA sequence of human genes.
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The Human Genome Project has challenged scientists, healthcare providers, ethicists, and society with new and challenging questions.
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For example, the U.S. Human Genome Project, an effort to spell out the entire genetic code of Homo sapiens, began its first phase in 1990.
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Wambui's design for an interactive exhibit on the Human Genome Project (HGP) encompasses three rooms, or "pods," organized around a giant 3-D model of a chromosome.
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The Human Genome Project has been pivotal in advancing our understanding of genetic diseases.
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Researchers from around the world collaborated on the Human Genome Project to map human DNA.
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The findings of the Human Genome Project have significant implications for personalized medicine.
How Comprehensive
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward compound of 'human' + 'genome' + 'project' — a planned research project concerning the human genome — so its meaning is directly inferable from the constituents. This denotational, descriptive naming pattern is cross-linguistically common and not idiomatic, so learners who know the component words can understand it.
Etymology
Human Genome Project got its name from the idea of making a complete 'map' of the human genome, that is, all the 'genes' in our 'DNA'. It was a big project by many countries to read and put these genes in order, so the name now means the large effort to map human DNA.