Friday, April 1, 2022

Creation Moment 4/2/2022 - "blueprint" & "set of instructions"

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me.... Psalm 139:6

"Scientists say they have finally assembled the full genetic blueprint for human life, adding the missing pieces to a puzzle that was nearly completed two decades ago.

An international team described the first-ever sequencing of a complete human genome — the set of instructions to build and sustain a human being — in research published Thursday in the journal Science. The previous effort, celebrated across the world, was incomplete because DNA sequencing technologies of the day weren't able to read certain parts of it. Even after updates, it was missing about 8% of the genome.
Some of the genes that make us uniquely human were actually in this ‘dark matter of the genome’ and they were totally missed,” said Evan Eichler, a University of Washington researcher who participated in the current effort and the original Human Genome Project. “It took 20-plus years, but we finally got it done.” 
 
---The human genome is made up of about 3.1 billion DNA subunits, pairs of chemical bases known by the letters A, C, G and T. 
---Genes are strings of these lettered pairs that contain instructions for making proteins, the building blocks of life. Humans have about 30,000 genes, organized in 23 groups called chromosomes that are found in the nucleus of every cell. 
 
Eichler said some scientists used to think unknown areas contained “junk." Not him. "Some of us always believed there was gold in those hills," he said."
LATimes