BLAST for beginners

Submitted by Sandra Porter on 17 March, 2014.
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/sites/default/files/media/2022/02/BLASTing_through_the_kingdom_of_life_2016.pdf"/blast/slide1.html">BLAST for beginners tutorial.

  • A set of unknown sequences.
  • A set of questions for students to answer.

  • Instructors may purchase an updated answer key from our TpT store.


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    1. Learn about our new teachers guide: BLASTing through the Kingdom of Life Teachers Guide

      Available as an interactive text with animations and videos in the iTunes Book store and as a PDF at our TpT store.

    Funding for this project was provided by the National Science Foundation's Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement Program under grants DUE-0088153, DUE-0127599, from Bio-Link, an NSF Advanced Technology Education Center, and from the AC2 Bio-Link Regional Center.

    Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

    ***We updated both the BLAST tutorial and the Blasting through the kingdom of life activity. 

    Additional reference material

    Nucleotide - Definition and Examples. Biology Articles, Tutorials & Dictionary Online. https://www.biologyonline.com/dictionary/nucleotide