(August 2003) In the early days of genetics, scientists did not have the resources to look at more than a few genes at a time. This made the process of understanding the influence of genetics on an organism slow and arduous. Scientists were faced with the enormous task of attempting to understand genetic influence with little information to complete the task. The understanding of genes would have been very helpful in solving this problem. The year 1995 saw the completion of the first two complete non-viral genomes, Haemophilus influenzae [1] and Mycoplasma genitalium [1], two bacteria that can cause human…