Learn about the plant life cycle by exploring common fruits for different seeds. Engage students by allowing them to observe fruits with a new perspective.
Humans have approximately 3 billion base pairs! How can we read this much DNA? One strategy is to break it into pieces, then put them back together. In this activity students can learn how to put multiple sequencing reads back together.
From: Commins, J., Toft, C., Fares, M. A. – “Computational Biology Methods and Their Application to the Comparative Genomics of Endocellular Symbiotic Bacteria of Insects.” Biol. Procedures Online (2009).
