NEET 2011 Biology question

In history of biology, human genome project led to the development of :

(1)Biotechnology
(2)Biomonitoring
(3)BioinformaticsCorrect
(4)Biosystematics

Answer: (3)

Solution

The Human Genome Project (HGP) generated an enormous amount of sequence data (about 3 billion base pairs) that had to be stored, retrieved, compared and analysed with computers. This gave rise to the new field of bioinformatics (NCERT: HGP is called a mega project

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