This Excel file has the answer key for BLASTing through the kingdom of life.
BLASTing through the kingdom of life is accompanied by a popular animated tutorial and a data set of 16 different sequences chosen to represent diverse forms of life. This activity is perfect for studying evolution and looking at evolutionary relationships.
As Genbank grows, every year the amount of sequence data increases. Consequently, the results for using this data set in BLAST, change every year too. These results were last checked and updated on March 6th, 2009.
Key words: BLAST, bioinformatics, blastn, 'sequence analysis', 'DNA sequences'
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