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Harlem Children SocietyStacia Semple - Midwood HSKimberly Small - George Washington Carver HS

New York UniversityDr. Todd Disotell / Kirstin Sterner

Understanding Primate EvolutionUsing Genetic Methods

DNA is a doublestranded helix.

The full name forDNA is deoxyribonucleic acid

DNA can replicate itself.

• Template melted into two strands by high heat– > 90 degrees C

• Primers anneal to both strands

• Polymerase makes a copy of both strands

PCR

• 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

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.

Dr. Todd DiostellKirstin SternerDr. Sat BhattacharyaThe Harlem Children’s Society

AcknowledgementsNew York University Department of AnthropologyMolecular Primatology LaboratoryFunded by NSF BCS 0715281 TRD/AJTNSF BCS 0658457 TRD/KNSWenner-Gren Foundation KNS