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NOVA – Cracking the Code of Life Name ____________________________ 1. Eric Lander describes the human genome as being like a parts list. How is the genome like a parts list? 2. To what degree are all humans identical at the genetic level? 3. About what percentage of the genes in a banana are also in a human? ____ Why is this figure so high? 4. In 1989, scientists discovered the first disease-causing gene in humans. What was the disease? What was wrong with the gene? 5. It was long thought that humans had around 100,000 genes. The initial survey of the human genome indicated that there were only about __________ genes in humans. What interesting fact about human genes allows humans to be so much more complex than something like a fruit fly? 6. Scientists working on the HGP found that the chromosomes were not packed with one gene after another. How are genes distributed on the chromosomes? How much of the chromosomes are actually genes? Contributed by: Thomas Wannamaker