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Human genome is said to have approximately

3 × 109 bp, and if the cost of sequencing required is 3 US $ bp (the estimated cost in the beginning), the total estimated cost of the project would be approximately 9 billion US dollars. Further, if the obtained sequences were to be stored in typed form in books, if the obtained sequences were to be stored in typed form in books. and if each page of the book contained 1000 letters and each book contained 1000 pages, then 3300 such books would be required to store the information of DNA sequence from a single human cell. The enormous amount of data expected to be generated also necessitated the use of high speed computational devices for data storage and retrieval, and analysis. HGP was closely associated with the rapid development of a new area in biology called Bioinformatics.

(i) How many base pairs are present in human genome ? (a) 3×10 6 bp (b) 6×10 9 bp (c) 3×10 9 bp (d) 9×10 6 bp(ii) If each page of the book contained 1000 letters and each book contained 1000 pages, then, how many such books would be required to store the information of DNA sequence from a Single human cell ? (a) 330 (b) 3300 (c) 3000 (d) 33000(iii) Which area of biology was rapidly developed associated with Human Genome Project (HGP)? (a) Biotechnology (b) Biochemistry (c) Bioinformatics (d) Genetics(iv) If the cost of sequencing required is US $ 3 per bp, then what will be the total estimated cost of the project ? (a) 3 billion US dollars (b) 6 billion US dollars (c) 9 million US dollars (d) 9 billion US dollars

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