2008 National DNA Day Online Chatroom Transcript

This is just one question from an archive of the National DNA Day Moderated Chat held in April 2008. The NHGRI Director and many genomics experts from across NHGRI took questions from students, teachers and the general public on topics ranging from basic genomic research, to the genetic basis of disease, to ethical questions about genetic privacy.

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To Kris Wetterstrand: I don't know about you, but a frog is definitely simpler than I am?      Kris Wetterstrand, M.S.: Working with the Sequences, Maps and Bacterial Artificial Chromosome (BAC) Libraries Program and the ENCODE (ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements) project. I'll give it to you that frogs can't talk and do math like we can. But they are a very diverse set of animals that inhabit many different environments. They can do a lot of things that we can't. Abbeville High School in SC (12th grade student)

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