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Science Buddies: Investigate Native Plant Evolution With Chloroplast Sequencing

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Most native plants are not very well studied. One way we learn more about these plants is by studying the species of plants they are most closely related to. In this science project you will sequence part of the chloroplast genome from a native plant and use this information to determine its evolutionary relationship to other species of plants.

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evolution, gel electrophoresis, sequencing
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Additional Tags
biotechnology project, botany project, cladistics, cladogram, plant science project, science fair project idea, pcr, rubisco, science buddies, chloroplast, native plant, nonhuman genome projects
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)