The Genome Age: Exploring Human Variation and Evolution
Allow students to use their own DNA differences (polymorphisms) to explore human variation, relatedness, and evolution. Why the mitochondrial genome? This experiment examines single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the nucleotide sequence of a portion of the mitochondrial (mt) chromosome. The mt chromosome is an oddity in the human genome. It retains several features of the […]