The Economist (US), February 20th, 1988
WHAT is man, that thou art mindful of him?" asked the psalmist. To some molecular biologists, an often heretical bunch, the answer is a list of 3 billion "base pairs" of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). A committee of America's National Academy of Sciences (NAS) believes that now is the time to start drawing the list up, at a probable cost of $1 an item.
The genes that parents pass on to their offspring are descriptions, in code, of proteins-one gene for each protein an animal needs. The genes are stored on molecules of DNA. The order of the base pairs that hold these molecules in their distinc...
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