Bushmeat DNA Blast
APES- Bushmeat DNA Blast Assignment Name: __________________________________________________________
Backstory: Imagine you are working with conservationists in Cameroon. You want to help them identify potential poachers and help them to enforce local poaching laws. You need to identify which vendors are selling the poached meat but it is in pieces and hard to identify the species by sight- what do you do?
Instructions: 1: Using the DNA Blast Program- http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi type in the DNA sequence into the nucleotide blast. Choose the “Nucleotide blast”. Under Database, make sure to choose “other”.
2: Using the results from the blast, type the organism name into google to find out what organism you have. (Common Name)
Sample #A62498: Sitatunga
Sample #B77342: Parasites......
Sample #C79942: Olive Baboon
Sample #C80217: African bush Elephant
Sample #C90034: Drill
Sample #D51210: Gorilla
Sample #G34176: Preuss Monkey's
Sample #G54358: Greater cane Rat
Sample #H64991: Western Red Colombus
Sample #I38722: Peter's Duiker
Sample #K28831: Jentink's duiker (Cephalophus)
Sample #N51683: Tragelaphus (Bovinae)
Conclusion: Why is it important to know the genome of an organism? How does it help us to identify endangered and threatened species?
-It is important to know the genome of an organism because like these botchers have done is kill many animals and sell the meat. A lot of the meat is not what they say it is a lot of them are just endangered species that were killed illegally. It helps us identify the endangered and threatened species because we have the DNA sequence and we see which ones we have hurt and which ones we need more protection for. We need to identify which are getting killed to set laws and rules and then figuring out to which extent we want these laws.
Backstory: Imagine you are working with conservationists in Cameroon. You want to help them identify potential poachers and help them to enforce local poaching laws. You need to identify which vendors are selling the poached meat but it is in pieces and hard to identify the species by sight- what do you do?
Instructions: 1: Using the DNA Blast Program- http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi type in the DNA sequence into the nucleotide blast. Choose the “Nucleotide blast”. Under Database, make sure to choose “other”.
2: Using the results from the blast, type the organism name into google to find out what organism you have. (Common Name)
Sample #A62498: Sitatunga
Sample #B77342: Parasites......
Sample #C79942: Olive Baboon
Sample #C80217: African bush Elephant
Sample #C90034: Drill
Sample #D51210: Gorilla
Sample #G34176: Preuss Monkey's
Sample #G54358: Greater cane Rat
Sample #H64991: Western Red Colombus
Sample #I38722: Peter's Duiker
Sample #K28831: Jentink's duiker (Cephalophus)
Sample #N51683: Tragelaphus (Bovinae)
Conclusion: Why is it important to know the genome of an organism? How does it help us to identify endangered and threatened species?
-It is important to know the genome of an organism because like these botchers have done is kill many animals and sell the meat. A lot of the meat is not what they say it is a lot of them are just endangered species that were killed illegally. It helps us identify the endangered and threatened species because we have the DNA sequence and we see which ones we have hurt and which ones we need more protection for. We need to identify which are getting killed to set laws and rules and then figuring out to which extent we want these laws.