APES- Bushmeat DNA Blast Assignment Name: Selena Felix Backstory: Imagine you are working with conservationists

in Cameroon. You want to help them identify potential poachers and help them to enforce local poaching laws. You need to identify which vendors are selling the poached meat but it is in pieces and hard to identify the species by sight- what do you do? Instructions: 1: Using the DNA Blast Programhttp://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgitype in the DNA sequence into the nucleotide blast. Choose the Nucleotide blast. Under Database, make sure to choose other. 2: Using the results from the blast, type the organism name into google to find out what organism you have. (Common Name) Sample #A62498: Sitatunga

Sample #B77342: African Porcupine

Sample #C79942: Olive Babooon

Sample #C80217: African Bush Elephant

Sample #C90034: Drill

Sample #D51210: Western Gorilla

Sample #G34176: Preusss Monkey

Sample #G54358: Greater Cane Rat Sample #H64991: Western Red Colobus

Sample #I38722: Peters Duiker

Sample #K28831: Jentinks Duiker

Sample #N51683: Bushbuck

Conclusion: Why is it important to know the genome of an organism? How does it help us to identify endangered and threatened species? It is important to know the genome of an organism because it is the way of knowing what type of meat you are given. Taking DNA from the meat and knowing what the genome is can tell what species it is. This can also help stop overexploitation because if we know the genome we can see if the species is being hunted in an area.