Question 1

(Multiple Choice)

Which statement about the Human Genome Project (HGP)is false?


A) The sequencing of smaller genomes helped in the development of methods that benefited the HGP.
B) Only privately funded groups were involved in the sequencing effort.
C) The HGP was in part spurred on by a desire to determine the specific DNA damage caused by radiation from the atomic blasts on Japan during World War II.
D) One objective of the HGP was to identify genetic changes associated with disease.
E) It was completed in the first decade of the twenty-first century.

Answer

B