Read the following statements regarding the methodologies of the Human Genome Project: (I) The Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) approach focuses on sequencing the whole set of genome containing all the coding and non-coding sequences. (II) Sequence annotation involves sequencing the entire genome and later assigning different regions in the sequence with functions. (III) Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) identify all the

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Statement (I) is incorrect because sequencing the whole set of genome containing all the coding and non-coding sequences is the approach known as Sequence Annotation, not Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs). Statement (II) is correct as Sequence Annotation involves sequencing the entire genome and later assigning different regions in the sequence with functions. Statement (III) is correct as ESTs specifically focus on identifying all the genes that are expressed as RNA. Statement (IV) is incorrect because the blind appr