Blast & Hardy Weinberg Labs Flashcards by Fareedah Salmon | Brainscape

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Blast Lab

Why is identifying the seqeunce of human genes important

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Allows us to better understand genetic diseases

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Blast Lab

What is Bioinformatics?

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Field that combines statistics, mathematical modeling, and computer science to analyze biological data
Ex Tool: BLAST - input gene sequence and search for genomic libraries for identical/similar sequences

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Blast Lab

What is a cladogram?

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AKA phylogenetic tree. A visualization of the evolutionary relatedness of species
The more similar genes 2 species have in common, the closeness of 2 species location mean they share a common ancestor
Higher score & lower e value - closer alignment

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