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Bioinformatics I Data Sheet
Lab Activity 1: Sequence Taxonomy
1. Approximately what proportion of the presently described species of life on Earth
2. How many bacterial species are represented in the taxonomy database? 3. Pick an extinct species to investigate.
b. c. d. What is the name of your selected gene? Raphus cucullatus
mitochondrion_
e. How many nucleotides long is the sequence? (You can find this in the first
line (LOCUS) xxx bp) ______17092 bp___________
f.
What is the citation for the paper reporting the sequence?
Soares AE,
Novak BJ, Haile J, Heupink TH, Fjeldså J, Gilbert MT, Poinar H, Church
GM, Shapiro B. Complete mitochondrial genomes of living and extinct
pigeons revise the timing of the columbiform radiation. BMC Evol Biol.
2016 Oct 26;16(1):230. doi: 10.1186/s12862-016-0800-3. PMID:
27782796; PMCID: PMC5080718.
Bioinformatics II Data Sheet
Lab Activity 3: SARS CoV-2 Phylogeny