APES- Bushmeat DNA Blast Assignment
Name: __________________________________________________________
Backstory: Imagine you are working with conservationists in Cameroon. You want to
help them identify potential poachers and help them to enforce local poaching laws. You
need to identify which vendors are selling the poached meat but it is in pieces and hard to
identify the species by sight- what do you do?
Instructions:
1: Using the DNA Blast Program- http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi
type in the DNA sequence into the nucleotide blast. Choose the “Nucleotide blast”.
Under Database, make sure to choose “other”.
2: Using the results from the blast, type the organism name into google to find out what
.
Name: __________________________________________________________
Backstory: Imagine you are working with conservationists in Cameroon. You want to
help them identify potential poachers and help them to enforce local poaching laws. You
need to identify which vendors are selling the poached meat but it is in pieces and hard to
identify the species by sight- what do you do?
Instructions:
1: Using the DNA Blast Program- http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi
type in the DNA sequence into the nucleotide blast. Choose the “Nucleotide blast”.
Under Database, make sure to choose “other”.
2: Using the results from the blast, type the organism name into google to find out what
.
Conclusion: Why is it important to know the genome of an organism? How does it help
us to identify endangered and threatened species?
Knowing the genome of an organisms help us to identify what type of specie the animal is and knowing plenty of things we need to know about it which includes that we can identify weather the organism is endangered or not and we can try to stop hunting those who are extinct and find a way to restore them
us to identify endangered and threatened species?
Knowing the genome of an organisms help us to identify what type of specie the animal is and knowing plenty of things we need to know about it which includes that we can identify weather the organism is endangered or not and we can try to stop hunting those who are extinct and find a way to restore them