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Rapping genomes for the people

The tough thing about getting people excited and interested in genetics is that most people don’t know what a genome is. I’m dead serious. I come across these non-genome-knowers all of the time. I recently had a conversation with someone I just met: obviously intelligent, well-read and presumably a genome-knower. This person had heard the term “genome” before, but he just couldn’t define it. He had a vague inclination that a genome has something to do with DNA. But he did not specifically know that a genome is a copy of his genetic material and is present in each of his trillions of cells. Wow! 

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