Australian Jack Irishâex-lawyer and sometime debt collector, cabinetmaker and barflyâgets a double introduction as MacAdam/Cage releases his first two adventures (number two is Black Tide) this month.
But ever since then, the estimated number has been steadily shrinking. A new study suggests that the human genome could contain as few as 19,000 protein-coding genes, fewer than nematode worms. In 2001, the initial sequence of the human genome cut the figure dramatically.
In the human genome (total genetic information in the nucleus of the cell), there are roughly three billion base pairs of DNA with about 20,000 genes (regions that code for proteins).Surprisingly, only about 1 percent of the DNA actually codes for proteins. The rest is non-coding DNA.n the human genome (total genetic information in the nucleus of the cell), there are roughly three billion base pairs of DNA with about 20,000 genes (regions that code for proteins).