EXERCISE 16–7 Wordy sentences

Edit each sentence to eliminate wordiness. Before working the exercise, read the example, which is the first sentence in the paragraph from which the sentences are taken. Type your answers in the boxes below. Click Save to save your work and return to it. Click Submit to record your activity in your instructor's gradebook. You can also review your response at any time.

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On June 26, 2000, two groups of scientists announced a breakthrough in the science of genetics.

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The scientists, representing teams from organizations that are known as the Human Genome Project and Celera Genomics, had deciphered the human genome.

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Every individual person inherits from each of his or her parents half of a genome, a set of instructions defining a human being.

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The publicly funded Human Genome Project originally began a genome map in 1990.

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In 1998, scientists at Celera Genomics, a private corporation, began racing the Human Genome Project team in a competition to see who could finish the genome map first.

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When each group had finished part of the map, the scientists combined the pieces together, completing the genome.

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There are many gains that scientists expect from the genome breakthrough.

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Genetic information will provide benefits for people at risk of developing genetic diseases.

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The genome map may help biologists learn how specific genes have an effect on the body.

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There are many details that still need to be added to the genome map, but the completed outline is cause for celebration.

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