{"id":5972,"date":"2022-12-21T03:45:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T22:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5972"},"modified":"2025-03-27T12:00:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T06:30:24","slug":"states-and-uts-asked-to-step-up-genome-sequencing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/states-and-uts-asked-to-step-up-genome-sequencing\/","title":{"rendered":"States and UTs asked to step up Genome Sequencing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Genome:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>A genome is an <strong>organism\u2019s complete set of DNA<\/strong>, including all of its genes.<\/li>\n<li>Each genome contains all of the information needed to build and maintain that organism.<\/li>\n<li>In humans, a copy of the entire genome\u2014more than 3 billion DNA base pairs\u2014is contained in all cells that have a nucleus.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Genome Sequencing:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Genome sequencing is figuring out the <strong>order of DNA nucleotides, or bases, in a genome<\/strong>\u2014the order of <strong>As, Cs, Gs, and Ts<\/strong> that make up an organism&#8217;s DNA.<\/li>\n<li>The human genome is made up of over 3 billion of these genetic letters.<\/li>\n<li>In more simple terms, Sequencing a gene is like reading a book one letter at a time to look for any spelling mistakes.<\/li>\n<li>Whole genome sequencing (WGS) is the equivalent of running spellcheck on every volume in a library.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Applications:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Tackling Human Disease<\/li>\n<li>Uncovering the secrets of our past<\/li>\n<li>Learning about the science behind ancient medicine<\/li>\n<li>Conserving our wildlife.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is DNA?<\/h3>\n<p>DNA is a long molecule containing instructions for making all the proteins in our bodies. It is composed of two strands that wrap around each other forming a double helix shape. Each strand of DNA is formed of four basic building blocks or \u2018bases\u2019: adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G) and thymine (T). The order, or sequence, of these bases determines our unique genetic code.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newsonair.gov.in\/News?title=Centre-asks-States-%26-UTs-to-step-up-genome-sequencing-as-Covid-cases-surge-globally&amp;id=452693\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Centre asks States &amp; UTs to step-up genome sequencing as Covid cases surge globally<\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genome sequencing is figuring out the order of DNA nucleotides or bases that make up an organism&#8217;s DNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}