NAU students sequence desert plant genome, gaining real-world research experience

This semester, students in an NAU biology course are tackling a project that many professional scientists spend years completing: sequencing and assembling an entire plant genome. In assistant professor Richard Hodel‘s Sequence a Plant Genome course, students are generating DNA sequence data, analyzing genetic information and assembling the complete genome of the shrub Prunus fasciculata… Source

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