Genome (Magill’s Literary Annual 2001)
At a glance:
- Author: Matt Ridley
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Science and ethics
- Genres: Nonfiction, Science and technology
- Subjects: History, Politics, Psychology or psychologists, Linguistics or linguists, Ethics, Genetics, Evolution
On June 26, 2000, leaders of the Human Genome Project and the biotechnology company Celera Genomics announced the much-anticipated completion of a draft of the human genome. This massive achievement of recording the entire genetic code for a human being represents the culmination of forty-seven years of research since James D. Watson and Francis Crick’s discovery of the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). The revelation of this precise genetic information, however, marks a beginning not an ending. It promises to usher in a new age of medical genetic advances that will lead to...
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