", 15 July 2013 (UTC)

To continue: If you are thinking in terms of ""model species"" or even functional models, I can understand your cognitive dissonance, but there are many kinds of scientific models (sometimes, ""model"" is used in the sense of an instance that represents desired properties (e.g., a fashion model), but this is a prototype, not a model).  This page, scientific model, might be helpful.  There are only two options here, given the use of the human genome generalization: Either the human genome is the genetic material for all members of the species, Homo sapiensin which case, ""human genome"" is not an abstractionor it is an idealization that represents the human species as a single ideal representation of genetic material (i.e., a scientific model).

At any rate, you still have not provided any reference or authority for what you referred to as how ""human genome"" ""is formally defined"" (i.e., as ""actual genetic material"").  I can't find any such formal definition of ""human genome"" outside of this Wikipedia article.  It applies to ""genome"" accurately, but you haven't backed up your claims regarding that definition of ""human genome"".  18:23"