FRSC 1010H Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Chlorophyta, Bioterrorism, Genomics
1 Dec 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Non human dna forensics: beyond direct human applications, dna has the ability to identify and individualize biological material and provide information from trace biological residues. Identify composition of micro-organisms in water or soil (or envelope: attempt to associate species/strain/species composition with a source. You can test hypothesis of how you got sick by taking a swoob of your dna and testing is to see where the bacteria comes from. Includes about 8000 species of mostly aquatic photosynthetic eukaryotic organisms. In this instance an invasive algae from local aquariums. Moss: there are approximately 10,000 species of moss classified in the bryophyta. The chlorophyta: tracking source of invasive species. Microbial forensics: deals with bacteria , farming industry , food industry. Tracking is used in the identification of pathogens. Environmental forensic soil meto genomics: soil regionally exhibits unique physical or chemical properties. Microbial forensics : a solid solution to foodborne illness cases. Used as presumptive test for different biological sources (saliva, semen, blood)
