In history of biology, human genome project led to the development of

In history of biology, human genome project led to the development of
A Bioinformatics
B Biosystematics
C Biotechnology
D Biomonitoring

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The Human Genome Project aimed to determine the sequence of the 3 billion base pairs of human DNA and to identify all the genes.
This generated an enormous amount of sequence data that had to be stored in databases, retrieved and analysed with high-speed computational devices.
NCERT states that HGP was closely associated with the rapid development of a new area in biology called bioinformatics.
Biotechnology and biosystematics existed long before the project, and biomonitoring is unrelated to it.
Hence the human genome project led to the development of bioinformatics.

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