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Putting DNA to Work
  INFECTIOUS DISEASE

Identify The Disease

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Identify The Disease
A new tool that uses the wealth of available DNA sequence information was used to identify the SARS disease agent as a strain of coronavirus in just 24 hours. See if you can identify the disease in this activity.

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