Class 12th Biology 2017 Set1 Outside Delhi Board Paper Solution

Question 13

List the two methodologies which were involved in human genome project. Mention how they were used. 

Answer

2 Methodologies of HGP :

(1) Expressed Sequence Tags (EST's) :  This method focusses on identifying all the genes that are expressed as RNA.

(2) Sequence Annotation :  It is an blind approach of simply sequencing the whole set of genome that contains all the coding and non-coding sequences, and later assigning different regions in the sequence with functions.