Modern Sequencing Reveals Who's Who

In theory, I can go from saying there is a Greenland shark here to saying a member of this specific family is potentially present. This process has yet to be widely used. How could a tool like this be used to support biodiversity protection? Consider this for your upcoming lessons with Mr. Collins: Why is population genetics important in wildlife conservation? These are my research goals!

I have personally operated the amazing sequencers that make all of this research capable while at my previous research fellowship in the Human Immunology Sequencing Core within the Vaccine Research Center of the National Institutes of Health. The machine in the picture is made in Singapore and glows in many different colors! Too cool. You will learn more about these incredible machines from experts in the following weeks. 

Glossary of Terms

  • Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs): A change of a single-nucleotide (base) in a genome. SNPs are a type of mutation. They are inherited from parents and can inform familial relationships. Rather than sequence the full genome of an organism, we can strategically target the most relavent SNPs.
  • Cladogram: An evolutionary tree that can showcase hypothetical or predicted ancestral relationships betweem different groups of organsims, such as within species or between species.

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