List three important discoveries that resulted from the Human Genome Project.
Answers should contain three of the following: Only about 2 percent of the human genome encodes proteins. Exons are not distributed equally on chromosomes. The human genome having only about 30,000 to 40,000 genes. Exons are spliced to allow a gene to encode dissimilar proteins. Half the human genome arises from the shuffling of transposons. There are about 8 million SNPs.