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BS 204 Guy Caldwell: The Role of Molecular Biology in Neuroscience

Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone

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The Origins of the C. Elegans Genome

C. elegans served as the model for understanding how we could go about decoding a genome and sequencing it completely. The worm has all of those genes that have been identified so far except for one, which allows it to be a very useful model for studying Parkinson's. We share approximately 50% of our DNA with C. elegans.

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