BIF402 Assignment 1 Solution and Discussion

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Course: BIF402- Ethical and Legal Issues in Bioinformatics
Instructor: Syed Hassan Abbas Assigned Date: 13-11-2019 Total Marks: 5
Term: FALL 2019 Assignment #1
Due Date: 25-11-2019
ethical implications of the HGP? Question # 2: (1-Marks)
Fill following blank sections –
How does the human genome stake up?
DEPARTMENT OF BIOINFORMATICS & COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY, VIRTUAL UNIVERSITY OF PAKISTAN
Question #1: (2-Marks)
What does the draft of HGP-Human Genome Project tell us? Also discuss the scientific and
Organisms
Human (Homo sapiens) Mouse ( M. musculus) Mustard weed (A. thaliana) Roundwarm (C. elegans) Fruit fly ( D. melanogaster) Yeast ( S. cerevisiae) Bacterium (E. coli)
Genome Size (Bases)
Estimated Gene
Question # 3: (2-Marks)
Read the following article (The 5 Most Pressing Ethical Issues in Biotech Medicine;
Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3570985/) and write summary in your own words.
Instructions:
You need to solve question # 2 by hand on hard paper, scan it by using Scanner/Mobile, Paste in
Word file by using insert option.

Formatting guidelines
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Solution guidelines
 To solve this assignment, you should have good command over lectures 1-20.
 This is not a group assignment, it is an individual assignment so be careful and avoid
copying others’ work
 Give the answer according to question only and avoid irrelevant details.
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@zareen said in BIF402 Assignment 1 Solution and Discussion:

What does the draft of HGP-Human Genome Project tell us? Also discuss the scientific and
Organisms
Human (Homo sapiens) Mouse ( M. musculus) Mustard weed (A. thaliana) Roundwarm (C. elegans) Fruit fly ( D. melanogaster) Yeast ( S. cerevisiae) Bacterium (E. coli)
Genome Size (Bases)
Estimated Gene

The Human Genome Project (HGP) was an international scientific research project with the … A working draft of the genome was announced in 2000 and the papers … The Human Genome Project, through its sequencing of the DNA, can help us … DNA sequences from different organisms is also opening new avenues in …
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