Teens explore the history of the Human Genome Project from a journalistic viewpoint to understand the events that made genome sequencing possible, the people involved, and its impact on the field of medicine.

Introduction -- Secret of life -- Gregor Mendel -- Boy or girl? -- Thinking big -- Transgenic animals -- Real-life mutants -- Race to the swift -- Swimming to success -- Jurassic future? -- Value of the HGP -- Guardian of the genome -- Bet on it.