Project:

Flower Pit Biodiversity

Students:

Siqiu Han, Yinxin Li, Yixuan Xue, Zhaokai Feng

School:

Cold Spring Harbor Asia DNA Learning Center,

Mentors:

Xinyue Wang

Abstract:

DNA Bar coding is a technology that can sequence certain types of DNA and identify the genus and the species that the DNA is taken from. The types of DNA that DNA bar coding can work with includes OI , which exists in an animal’s mitochondrion, or rbcL and matK, which exists in a plant’s chloroplast. This technology can be used to quickly identify species, such advantage can be seen while identifying biodiversity and testing for ingredients in substances. In our case, we are using the Rapid DNA Isolation method to collect DNA and identify the species of samples that we collected from flower bed in front of the DNA learning center. This isolation method is fast, inexpensive, easy to perform, and suitable for chloroplast DNA collection. After the project is done we can identify around 18 species that grows in the flower bed.

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