Computationally Comparing Different Genomes

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Background Information

Objective:  To have the user compare two very similar organisms to familiarize themself with CoGe while also learning a about evolution.

Difficulty:  Easy

Esitmated Time:  10 minutes

Lesson

Introduction

     A human genome contains over 3 billion basepairs.  If a scientist wants to identify similar portions of DNA in a human genome to a chimpanzee genome, which is also over 3 billion basepairs long, the scientist would need to use a computer program.  This is where CoGe comes in.  CoGe

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