Wirt,

Thanks for your summary of the Genome project.   I read it with
delight.

Buck up my half remembered biology.   Chloroplasts (organelles present
in virtually every plant cell) are present in the human cell?

> What we have now, 140 years later, is massive, overwhelming
evidence, held in
> Oracle databases on DEC Alpha servers at the National Institutes of
Health,
> the Department of Energy and the Celera corporation, that Darwin was
right.

This I don't understand.   What new information about evolutionary
theory does completing the mapping of the human genome give us that we
didn't have last year, or the year before?

Furthermore, it seems to me that while completing the mapping is a
nice sign post in the history of science and a great news story,
nevertheless the greater value of the work has and will come from
mapping the expression of genes and sets of genes to active questions
in medicine and biology.   My sense is that having a map of the entire
genome may be helpful to studying expression but it is neither
necessary or sufficient to that end.    Am I missing anything here?
I found the implications of the story about the excelleration of
technology brought about by the project to be more note worthy than
it's completion.

- Cortlandt