Australian Museum Evolutionary Biology Unit

Lab Tour

Take a tour of the Evolutionary Biology Unit labs following this step-by-step process:

1. Collection of tissue
   • Sorting, identification
   • Catalogued and databased
2. Tissue collection
3. Genes and proteins - why study them?
4. Protein electrophoresis
5. DNA extraction
6. Agarose gel electrophoresis
7. Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
8. DNA sequencing
9. Single Stranded Conformational Polymorphism (SSCP)
10. Microsatellites

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