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Understanding Genomics

Questionnaire:

1. What is the difference between genetics and genomics?

Genetics is the study of individual genes, whereas genomics is the study of the
entire genome.

2. What is CRISPR?

It is a component of a bacterial immune systems that can cut DNA and has been
repurposed as a gene editing tool.

3. What does CRISPR stand for?

Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats

4. Is gene or genomic sequencing better to find cures for


diseases?

Genomic Sequencing

5. Which institute in the UK is famous for genomics?

Wellcome Sanger Institute

Results:

Table
Question Question Question Question Question
one two three four five
% % % % %
Understanding Genomics

Overall 30 10 10 60 10
findings
and notes
of interest

Write-up

I asked questions from my family and some friends. The majority of them did not
know the difference between a gene and a genome but everyone knew what a
gene was. Only one person had some knowledge about genomes, CRISPR and the
Wellcome Sanger Institute.

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