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Science Friday: Ancient Dna AudioScience Friday: Ancient Dna Audio
Publisher
Science Friday Initiative
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9th - 10th
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Science
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Resource Type
Audio
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0L
Audio

Science Friday: Ancient Dna

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Why DNA in ancient ice might tell us how life on earth DIDN'T start! Learn from an audio lecture that if bacteria were to have arrived on Earth riding on a comet or asteroid, the DNA of the organisms would likely have been too corrupted by damage from cosmic rays during their multi-million year voyage to be viable. [11:03]

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Concepts

dna

Additional Tags

life on earth, science friday, ancient earth, origin of life

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

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