APES- Bushmeat DNA Blast Assignment
Name: _Jose Cruz_________________________________________________________
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: Plasmodium atheruri, is a type of plasmodium parasite
Sample #C79942: Olive Baboon
Sample #C80217: African Bush Elephant
Sample #C90034: Drill (Primate)
Sample #D51210: Common Chimpanze
Sample #G34176: Preuss's monkey
Sample #G54358: Greater Cane Rat
Sample #H64991: Western Red Colobus (Primate)
Sample #I38722: Peters's Duiker (Antelope)
Sample #K28831: Jentik's Duiker
Sample #N51683: Bongo (Antelope)
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 a genome of an organism because there is a chance we might never see a certain organism again ever. Knowing the genome can help future generations. It helps us identify certain species because each genome is unique to an organism.
Name: _Jose Cruz_________________________________________________________
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: Plasmodium atheruri, is a type of plasmodium parasite
Sample #C79942: Olive Baboon
Sample #C80217: African Bush Elephant
Sample #C90034: Drill (Primate)
Sample #D51210: Common Chimpanze
Sample #G34176: Preuss's monkey
Sample #G54358: Greater Cane Rat
Sample #H64991: Western Red Colobus (Primate)
Sample #I38722: Peters's Duiker (Antelope)
Sample #K28831: Jentik's Duiker
Sample #N51683: Bongo (Antelope)
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 a genome of an organism because there is a chance we might never see a certain organism again ever. Knowing the genome can help future generations. It helps us identify certain species because each genome is unique to an organism.