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Cholera Article Assignment
Cholera Article Assignment
(1 pt)
8. Name and briefly describe a technique that you learned about in this article. How is it useful in biology research?
(3 pts)
One technique I found interesting is comparative genomics. Comparative genomics is the process of comparing the
different DNA and gene sequences among different species and even within the same species. When comparing,
scientists will use databases to compare single-nucleotide variations and hypervariable chromosomal elements.
This technique can be used to understand human diseases, discover why some bacteria cause infection, and even
learn more about human evolution.
Sources
1 http://cosmos.ucdavis.edu/archives/2007/cluster7/cabuguason_gleisel.pdf
2 http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/emerg_infect_dis11-0059.pdf
3 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3209127/
4http://www.newbridgeorganicmarket.com/ns/DisplayMonograph.asp?
StoreID=76D652A7CA694C50B591A77DBFB31E9D&DocID=genomic-comparativegenomics
5 http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/emerg_infect_dis11-0059.pdf