The human's genome can be seen as the instruction manual for the assembly of that entire human. While, yes those instructions are specific to that particular human, the human genome project essentially gave us the chapter titles and the total length of the instruction manual. The exact words on the pages are different for everyone, but the chapter titles and length are essentially the same for every human.
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The human's genome can be seen as the instruction manual for the assembly of that entire human. While, yes those instructions are specific to that particular human, the human genome project essentially gave us the chapter titles and the total length of the instruction manual. The exact words on the pages are different for everyone, but the chapter titles and length are essentially the same for every human.