{"id":61647,"date":"2018-11-28T09:31:32","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T09:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=61647"},"modified":"2018-11-28T09:31:32","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T09:31:32","slug":"earth-bio-genome-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/earth-bio-genome-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth Bio-Genome Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Consider the following statements regarding Earth Bio-Genome Project (EBP):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>This mission aims at sequencing and cataloguing the genome of all living eukaryotic organism only.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Till date roughly 0.2% of total complex life forms have their genome sequenced.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Of the above which is\/are correct?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>(a)1 only<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>(b)2 only<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>(c)1 and 2 both<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>(d)None of the above<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Answer: (c)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>An ambitious mission, Earth Bio-Genome Project (EBP) was announced on 1<sup>st<\/sup> November, 2018: to map the entire genome of all animal, plant, fungus and protozoan on the earth.<\/li>\n<li>Decade long process to map the genomes of about 1.5 million species will roughly cost $4.7 billion. Arguably the most ambitious proposal in the history of biology, will completely transform our scientific understanding of life on earth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- ssgc-in-link-res --><br \/>\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7086827700842303\" data-ad-slot=\"2662621974\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Till date only 3500 complex life forms, roughly 0.2% of total have their genome sequenced.<\/li>\n<li>It will provide new resources to cope with the rapid loss of biodiversity and habitat changes that are primarily due to human activities and climate change.<\/li>\n<li>UK\u2019s <strong>Welcome Sanger Institute<\/strong> has taken the initiative to come forward to map 66,000 species in the UK. This institute was involved in the Human Genome Project.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>By Ramayan Upadhyay<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthbiogenome.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.earthbiogenome.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/115\/17\/4325.long#sec-16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/115\/17\/4325.long#sec-16<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Earth_BioGenome_Project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Earth_BioGenome_Project<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstpost.com\/tech\/science\/dna-of-all-life-on-earth-to-be-sequenced-in-massive-genome-project-report-5491001.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.firstpost.com\/tech\/science\/dna-of-all-life-on-earth-to-be-sequenced-in-massive-genome-project-report-5491001.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ozy.com\/presidential-daily-brief\/pdb-90376\/the-coders-90386\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.ozy.com\/presidential-daily-brief\/pdb-90376\/the-coders-90386<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Consider the following statements regarding Earth Bio-Genome Project (EBP): This mission aims at sequencing and cataloguing the genome of all living eukaryotic organism only. Till date roughly 0.2% of total complex life forms have their genome sequenced. Of the above which is\/are correct? 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