Chris Ponting, Darwin and modern science, Thurs 9 July
Duration: 12 mins 37 secs
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Genomes: the books of life
Professor Chris Ponting (University of Oxford, UK) Summary: DNA from across the tree of life presents a fascinating record of the impact of natural selection on animal evolution. Differences in anatomy and behaviour between species are reflected by changes both within genes and within DNA ‘dark matter’ whose biology remains largely unknown. |
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| Created: | 2009-10-15 16:08 |
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| Collection: | Darwin Festival 2009 |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | University of Cambridge, Darwin Festival 2009 |
| Language: | eng (English) |
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| Keywords: | Darwin; evolution; genome; DNA; anatomy; species; genes; change; biology; human; |
| Explicit content: | No |
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| Abstract: | Biography: Chris Ponting was trained in particle physics before he began to decipher the 3-billion letters of the human genome. He was a major participant in international projects that sequenced the human, mouse, rat, dog, opossum, chicken and platypus genomes. He now works on the ‘dark matter’ of the genome, and on how large DNA differences among humans contribute to diseases, such as asthma, obesity, Alzheimer’s, learning difficulties and developmental delay.
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