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Give any six features of the human genome.

Human Genome is the genome of the Homo Sapiens. It consists of the coding regions of the DNA which encodes all the genes. It also consists of all the non-coding regions of the DNA which does not encode for any genes.

Six features of the human genome are:


1.The genome has around 3164.7 million nucleotide bases.


2.99.9 % of the nucleotide bases are same in all humans.


3.The largest gene is Dystrophin having 2.4 million bases.


4.Chromosome 1 has most genes (2968) and Y has the least genes (231).


5.Less than 2% of the genome has the coding sequence for proteins.


6.Only 50% of the total discovered genes have known functions.


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