1. What is the difference between a genetic map and a physical map?
2. What is a centiMorgan and what does 1cM equal?
3. What were the goals of the human genome project?
4. Who’s DNA was sequenced? How long did it take? How much did it cost?
5. What were the different strategies employed by the International Genome Sequencing Consortium and Craig Venter sequencing teams?
6. What are the advantages and disadvantages to whole genome shotgun sequencing?
7. How much of the human genome is made up of transposable elements? What percentage is protein coding? 8.How many protein coding genes were identified?
9. What is horizontal gene transfer?
10. How is the mutation rate in males different from the rate in females?