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Cracking the Code of Life assignment Watch the documentary and write a 1-page (>500 word)

Summarize the documentary highlighting the main ideas, any new facts that you have learned, difference between corporate and academic in research styles. Discuss the debate over patenting genes (where are we today), explain the structure and function of DNA, what a gene is and how it functions and how gene functions are related to diseases. Discuss why sequencing the human genome is perhaps the most significant achievements of the century, when finished, the project provided groundwork for years of research and explain what happened after all these years in detecting, treating, and curing human diseases. How the discoveries made by sequencing the human genome benefited other arenas such as agriculture or evolutionary biology. What did you like/dislike about this documentary?