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List the salient features of Human Genome.

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The humans genome contains about 30,000 genes much lower than previous estimates of 80000 to 1,40,000.
Human genome contains 3.1647 billion base pairs, `ul("Drosophila")ul("melanogaster")` has 132 million bp.
The chromosome I has maximum number of genes 2968 and .Y. chromosome has minimum number of genes 231.
The functions of over `50%` of discovered genes is not know.
Less than `2%` of genome contains structural genes that code for proteins.
There are repetitiv sequences called satellite DNA in human genome.
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