- Upper Green River Barcode of Life Project
|
|
 |
Bio 175 Honors University Experience Class Project Identifying species on the basis of morphology can be an extremely challenging task. Many species can only be identified by an expert familiar with the intimate details of an organism's biology. Unfortunately, fewer and fewer people are trained in traditional techniques of species identification and taxonomy. To
counteract this trend and to make species identification more straightforward
for a large number of researchers, an international consortium
of investigators has started to collect a standard set of DNA sequences
for all species of organisms. By sequencing the same gene for all
species, the sequence of that gene can serve as a unique "barcode" or
identifier. This collaborative effort has become known as the Barcode
of Life Project.
|
| The Freshman Honors Sections of Bio 175 University Experience are participating in this international effort by collecting, identifying, and sequencing genes from insects and other arthropods at the Upper Green River Biological Preserve in Hart County, Kentucky. Participant List. | |
 |
Constructing
the Barcode of Life:
|
| Comments
or questions on the format of this page should be directed to jeffrey.marcus@wku.edu Last Modified: December 2006 |
|