Ever since the human-genome project was completed, it has puzzled biologists that animals, be they worms, flies or people, all seem to have about the same number of genes for proteins-around 20, 000.

自从人类基因组计划完成后，令生物学家迷惑不解的是：动物(线虫、苍蝇和人类)好像都有相同数目的组成蛋白质的基因——大概20,000个。

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In the years since the human genome project was completed it has become clear that humans and chimps share around 96% of their DNA.

人类基因组计划完成之后，已经搞清楚的是人类和黑猩猩的DNA约96%是相同的。

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In 2002, Chinese scientists announced that they had completed their part of the international human genome project, proving that Chinese scientists are among the world's best.

2002年中国科学家宣布他们已经完成了国际人类基因组项目中自己承担的任务，从而证明了中国科学家是世界上一流的。

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Three years later, the Human Genome Project announced an almost-completed human genome.

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The drive for size was powered by a desire to be first to create blockbuster drugs out of the wealth of information arising from the Human Genome Project, completed in June.

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One of the primary goals of The Human Genome project (completed in 2003) was to identify the 20-25, 000 genes in human DNA. The good news, of course, is that they succeeded and today about 84% of those genes remain free of legal encumbrance.

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The Human Genome Project, which set out to read all 2.9 billion bases in human DNA, was completed earlier this year.

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