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Article: Genome: The Secret Of How Life Works.(traveling exhibit )
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- Science Activities
- Article date:
- June 22, 2003
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GENOME: THE SECRET OF HOW LIFE WORKS opened this past June at the Smithsonian Institution's Arts and Industries Building in Washington, D.C. The exhibit will be on display through January 2004, after which it will travel to 15 cities nationwide over the next five years. The opening of the exhibit coincides with the 50th anniversary of the modeling of the DNA double helix structure. GENOME attempts to answer frequently asked questions about the subject, and address misconceptions that surround the human genome related to, for example, genetic predetermination, the nature of mutations, and the slight differences in genetic material that separate one human being from ...