An initial objection to sequencing the human genome was that it would take funding away from a pressing health concern of the time. This problem was

A) the AIDS epidemic.

B) tuberculosis and malaria in developing nations.

C) swine flu, which was threatening to be a pandemic.

D) SARS.


A) the AIDS epidemic.

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