Saturday, 28 April, & Sunday, 29 April 2018
We finally get to the "genes" of the title...
The official reason for our road trip was to go to Caltech (Pasadena, California) to attend a weekend seminar on evolution, genetics, and molecular biology, in preparation for our trip to the Galapagos in August.
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| We started by measuring the beaks of three finch species. These are not Galapagos finches, but more common species. But who knew you could get taxidermied finches on Etsy? |
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| We measured the beaks (3 dimensions) with calipers. It's trickier than it sounds. Finch speciation in the Galapagos provoked Darwin's development of the idea of evolution. |
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| Later we extracted DNA from chicken, turkey, and duck meat. We then amplified a portion of our extracted DNA that codes for the ribosome (a universal cell component) and checked its purity with gel electrophoresis. |
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| The scan of our product was disappointing, but the "ladder" markers came out fine! |
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