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The 3-billion-letter instruction manual nobody reads, yet everybody runs.
means The complete set of DNA instructions needed to build and run a human being, packaged into 23 pairs of chromosomes.
from 'Genome' is a 20th-century blend coined by combining 'gene' (from Greek genos, meaning birth or origin, via German Gen) with the suffix '-ome,' borrowed from 'chromosome.' That '-ome' ending later snowballed into its own suffix meaning 'the complete set of' — giving us proteome, microbiome, and the rest of biology's ever-expanding '-omics' family. 'Human' simply traces back to Latin humanus, tied to homo (man) and possibly humus (earth) — so even the species name quietly roots us back to the ground.
- junk dna
- Over 98 percent does not code for proteins
- shared with bananas
- About 60 percent overlap in genes
- first full map
- 2003 draft took 13 years and billions
- storage size
- Fits on a single DVD, roughly 1.5GB