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Science Buddies: Blast Into the Past Identify T. Rex's Closest Living Relative

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Believe it or not, scientists were recently able to recover tissue and partial sequence information for protein molecules from a 68-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex fossil. In this genomics science fair project, you will use the T. rex's protein sequence to search sequence databases for the its closest living relatives.

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