http://pcshannon.com/2006/06/12/how-many-genes-does-one-human-need/ Don't mind if I do Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:01:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://pcshannon.com/2006/06/12/how-many-genes-does-one-human-need/#comment-88 Phil Wed, 14 Jun 2006 18:23:06 +0000 http://www.pcshannon.com/blog/archives/2006/06/12/how-many-genes-does-one-human-need#comment-88 I just read an <a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v441/n7092/full/441398a.html" rel="nofollow">article</a> from <i>Nature</i> from last month that touches on this very topic. It took 25 scientists almost 2 days to come up with a workable definition of a gene: "A locatable region of genomic sequence, corresponding to a unit of inheritance, which is associated with regulatory regions, transcribed regions and/or other functional sequence regions." Wow, that's vague. I just read an article from Nature from last month that touches on this very topic. It took 25 scientists almost 2 days to come up with a workable definition of a gene: “A locatable region of genomic sequence, corresponding to a unit of inheritance, which is associated with regulatory regions, transcribed regions and/or other functional sequence regions.” Wow, that’s vague.

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