Could someone please explain to a novice in this field something which I
don't understand.
I have recently read that...
"the book of the human genome will consist of thousands and thousands of
pages of base pair sequences, such as AATCGGATTCCC...".
This seems to imply that everybody has exactly the same DNA. Given that we
are all different (except identical twins), even if only slightly, surely
then no such book could have all of these base pair sequences "hard-coded".
So how will this book address that problem?
Secondly I would like to know if everybody (or at least most people) has
exactly the same number of base pairs, which I understand is in the order of
3.1 billion. If not, how would the book account for any variation?
Thanks,
DJ
