CK12 Genetics: 3.8 Human Genome

All the information needed to encode a human being.

• DNA Extravaganza
• Human Genome
• CRISP
• Mutation

We all have the ______ that make us human.

• Genes
• Cells
• Organs
• Features

We are ___ because we have the same genes, but they work differently in most of us.

• Different
• Same
• Unique

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Humans have about _________ bases of information in our DNA

• 1 Million
• 1 Billion
• 3 Billion
• 3 Trillion

Humans have roughly ___________ genes in the human genome.

• 20,000 to 22,000
• 100,000 to 200,000
• 1 million to 2 million
• 1 billion to 2 billion

Scientists now know the DNA sequence of the entire human genome because of the what?

• Human Genome Project
• CRISP
• Stem Cells
• Evolution

In ______ scientists sequences 3 billion base pairs of DNA

• 1492
• 18.12
• 1969
• 2003

Regions in which no function has yet been identified.

• Junk DNA
• RNA
• Ribosomes
• Gene

It is thought that about ____ of the genome is active.

• 40%%
• 0.6
• 0.8
• 1

It is now thought that at least three-quarters of the genome is involved in making what?

• Junk DNA
• RNA
• Ribosomes
• Gene