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Science Buddies: Trace Your Ancient Ancestry Through Dna ActivityScience Buddies: Trace Your Ancient Ancestry Through Dna Activity
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Science Buddies
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9th - 10th
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Science
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Lexile Measures
1130L
Activity

Science Buddies: Trace Your Ancient Ancestry Through Dna

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In this science project, you will investigate the secrets of your distant past as revealed by your DNA. In order to obtain a sample for DNA analysis, you will scrape a soft swab inside your mouth to collect cheek cells. Based on the genetic markers in your DNA, the ancient clan that your ancestors belonged to will be identified. The resources you receive will introduce you to your ancient ancestors and allow you to explore their migrations.

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Concepts

ancestors, genomics, dna, short tandem repeats

Additional Tags

ancient ancestry, ancient clan, haplogroup, single nucleotide polymorphisms, national geographic society's genographic project, snps, strs, science buddies, y chromosome, mitochondrial dna

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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