bwood@janus.Berkeley.EDU (Blake Philip Wood) (07/13/90)
A very basic question which has confused me: I hear a lot about the project to map the human genome. At what level is this mapping done? I had always assumed this meant determining the amino acid sequence in a human DNA, but this wouldn't be unique since people are genetically different from one another. Is it just determining which genes sit on which chromosomes? In this case, what does "which genes" mean, since I understand there isn't a one to one correspondence between genes and specific traits. Please enlighten me. Blake P. Wood - bwood@janus.Berkeley.EDU Plasmas and Non-Linear Dynamics, U.C. Berkeley, EECS