> Robert Karl Stonjek wrote:
> >
> 
>
> Can someone here tell me if this 99.2% figure is just considering DNA
> segments that code for proteins, or if it includes the long stretches of
> DNA of unknown function?
>
> Mitchell Timin
>

RKS:
The human genome project only mapped Genes.  Techniques to find genes among
the junk is what made the project possible.  If it were called the human DNA
project then they would only have managed to get around 5% done thus far.

The comparison is of coding genes.

Kind Regards,
Robert Karl Stonjek.
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