User:RelentlessRecusant/Human genome

The human genome is the conserved genome shared by the human species (Homo sapiens) and is extremely highly conserved amongst its members.

Originally sequenced by Lander et. al in 2001 on Earth, the human genome consists of 2.85 billion nucleotides that are distributed across twenty-three unique chromosomes, and consists of 20,000-25,000 protein-encoding genes. However, these protein-encoding genes comprise approximately 1.9% of the human genome (34 million bases translated, 21 million bases untranslated), leaving ~98.1% of the entire length of the human genome whose functions are largely unknown.