Week seven

 

Extracting DNA is one the most important scientific discoveries as it helps human and their wellbeing in numerous ways. Nowadays, isolating DNA and observing its characteristic and functions can be done in order to classify them or do comparison on different DNAs for different reasons. Some of the reasons for extracting a DNA are to find out about mutations, paternity, genetic disorders, forensic, and for diagnostic reasons. Extracting DNA opens an access to genetic material, and to study it and manipulate it in order to improve human life and the world surrounding them. My research is on extracting DNA from bacteria on human skin and staphylococcus aurous to see if the two are the same or not. Two colonies observed to be so much alike. To take a step further, more experiments are needed to be done. Colony morphology for the bacteria grown from human skin was so close to that of staphylococcus aurous. Series of tests will be done to determine the truth to this hypothesis, and to make the result definite DNAs of two species will be sequenced. If the results to any of the steps don’t support the hypothesis, further experiments will be terminated and conclusion will be made.

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