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Question
Write the percentage of the total human genome that codes for proteins and the percentage of discovered genes whose functions are known as observed during HGP.
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Solution
The total number of genes (coding for the protein) in the human genome is 30,000, which is less than 2% of the total genome, and almost 50% of the discovered genes have unknown functions.
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