the human genome is fully mapped, but who’s genome is this?

Question

There are differences between everyone’s genome, so when the human genome was mapped, who were they basing it off of?

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Answer 1

Imagine a puzzle- the old “500 pieces in a box” type.

The mapped genome is the shape of all the cuts of the pieces. It took a long time to trace all those cuts, but we mapped it.

Think of each person as a different picture that could be stamped onto that puzzle. Could be any picture; there are an infinite amount to chose from.

We’ve always seen the “pictures” of people, but now that we’ve mapped the “shape” of the puzzle pieces, we can map out each part of each person specifically!

Genome = Puzzle Shapes
Every Person on the planet = A different picture we can put on the puzzle