Consider the following statements with regard to Human Genome Project HGP 1 Goal of the project was ...........

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Consider the following statements with regard to Human Genome Project (HGP):

1. Goal of the project was complete mapping and understanding of all the genes of human beings.

2. The potential benefits of HGP include providing new solutions to diseases like malaria, dengue and chikungunya.

3. A group of scientists from India recently proposed an ambitious project named as Human Genome Project-Write (HGP-Write) to create a genetic blueprint or synthetic human genome.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

1 only

1&2 only

2&3 only

1,2&3 only

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Explanation:

Human Genome Project (HGP)
The Human Genome Project (HGP) was a large, international and multi-institutional effort that took 13 years [1990-2003] and $2.7 billion to produce a blueprint of the sequence of genes and spaces between genes that make up a typical human genome.
Human Genome Project – Write (HGP – Write)
Fast forward to 2016 and another project, called the Human Genome Project–write (HGP-write), now underway to synthesise a human genome from scratch.
The original HGP was a “read” in that it used chemicals and instruments to decipher the genome for the first time. The new project, its proponents say, is to write or build an artificial human genome with sophisticated bioengineering tools.
The potential benefits of HGP-write to India include providing new solutions to diseases like malaria, dengue and chikungunya. The tools, techniques and technologies that are going to be developed through HGP-write will be universally applicable to all organisms, especially at an earlier stage for organisms with smaller genomes (for example, viruses), towards building individual genes and genomes efficiently and in an inexpensive manner.
It also aims at improving the ability to chemically manufacture DNA, with one of the goals being to synthetically create an entire human genome.