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The human genome project took so long because the genetic makeup of humans is quite complex. It took scientists from all over the world to crack the code.

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The Human Genome Project started in 1990 by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Department of Energy to sequence all 3 billion letters, or base pairs, in the human genome.

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The project began in 1990

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