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Understanding Primate Evolution Using Genetic
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Harlem Children Society Stacia Semple - Midwood
HS Kimberly Small - George Washington Carver HS
New York University Dr. Todd Disotell / Kirstin
Sterner
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The full name for DNA is deoxyribonucleic acid
DNA is a double stranded helix.
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DNA can replicate itself.
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PCR

• Template melted into two strands by high heat
• gt 90 degrees C
• Primers anneal to both strands
• Polymerase makes a copy of both strands

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• Temperature raised to melt newly made DNA
• Primers allowed to anneal as temperature drops
• Polymerase elongates new second strand of DNA
• Process repeated
• Exponential increase in DNA

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Summary of chain termination sequencing
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Old World Monkeys are from Africa and Asia.
Researchers are trying to place these genera
properly onto the primate family tree.
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Acknowledgements
Dr. Todd Diostell Kirstin Sterner Dr. Sat
Bhattacharya The Harlem Childrens Society
New York University Department of
Anthropology Molecular Primatology
Laboratory Funded by NSF BCS 0715281 TRD/AJT NSF
BCS 0658457 TRD/KNS Wenner-Gren Foundation KNS