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