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Bioinformatics Laboratory Materials

Allelic Variants of SOD variants worksheet ( 6kb)	Find different kinds of information about a genetic disease and determine where the a mutated amino acid is located in the protein.
BLAST for beginners Blast practice	A list of questions that might be answered by a BLAST search. The DNA sequences that accompany this activity represent all kingdoms of life.
Mitochondria and Chloroplasts Investigating Maternal Inheritance	Mitochondrial sequences are often used in forensics as a tool for identification. Can you identify the source of a mitochondrial sequence? This worksheet provides points to consider in this type of analysis.

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Funding for this project was provided by the National Science Foundation's Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement Program under grants DUE-0088153 and DUE-0127599, also from Bio-Link, an NSF Advanced Technology Education Center.

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