Day 9- Meet Dr. Stuart Lindsay

DNA sequencing is an area of science that I have always possessed a strong interest in. Today, Dr. Lindsay explained the randomness of DNA formation and sequencing. The other main focus of the lecture was on the benefits of Polymerase. Another area of interest in today's lecture was on exons and introns in DNA sequencing. Exons are the expressed genes in DNA strands whereas introns are what used to be considered "junk DNA" because they were not expressed genes and therefore scientists did not view these as important. Today, however, it has been revealed that introns, while not expressed genes, are necessary for several controlled functions within each cell. From today's lecture, I hope to bring back to my students the vast need for more research into the sciences. The human genome project has left much more work and unanswered questions that will need worked on by our students in their future.