Thursday, October 29, 2015

Two Suns for Tatooine


During the week of October 25th, I worked on figuring out what kind of protocol to use in order to do the cactus spine DNA extraction and I was also working on finding sources for the final paper. Matt happened to lend me some books such as A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert, Environmental Biology of Agaves and Cacti, and Cacti Biology and Uses. The paper will be about how I was able to extract DNA from a cholla and how I was able to distinguish the polymorphic banding. I hope the protocol I use will be able to produce a high yield of cholla DNA. 


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