What does mapping an organism’s genome mean, and how is it useful?
In: Biology
Ok.
If DNA is the strands of information that your body builds itself on, your Genome would be your body’s full set. Like if you take all the DNA code in your body, that’s the Genome of you basically.
Mapping it out means like individually detailing every single set of instructions for every cell in your body and how it interacts with the other cells in your body or outside it even.
It’s useful in many ways. Like understanding where people come from and all the ways that we’re all a lot more closely related than you might expect.
More importantly understanding the genetic sequence of an organism will tell you a ton of medical information. What diseases might affect you and how. What medicine will do to you and if your body will accept or reject it.
So many more ways too.
The hardest part after the map is drawn is figuring out what it all means… there are on average 20,000-25,000 gene sets in the human body according to something that I honestly skimmed over… don’t quote me or nothing…
Hopefully this will help you know what to look up at least.
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