What Makes a Nerve Cell Different from a Skin Cell?
The same genome is in every cell of your body. Yet different cells in different parts of your body look and act very differently. Watch a video that describes one way a bioinformatician could approach the question: How does the same genome produce different types of cells? The activity explores several databases used by bioinformaticians and other scientists for their research.
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