emilyjo10

Thank you so much for your advice! This is already helping me so much. Thankfully, I am using a mirVana miRNA Isolation Kit from Applied Biosystems. I am carefully reading and taking notes over the manual now. Thank you again! Emily

Hi! My name is Emily, and I am a high school senior in my Aquatic Biology/Scientific Research Honors class. For our final project, we have to write a scientific paper on anything to do with aquatic habitats. (water, fish, streams, etc.) I am very interested in Genetics, so I was hoping to do my research on something to do with it. My teacher is allowing me access to her RNA Extraction equipment. However, she has never had a successful extraction. I would really like to maybe compare RNA of 2 different organisms from the same species. The Questions: 1. Is there a specific aquatic organism's RNA that would be the best/easiest to extract? 2. How should a high school student go about figuring out this complicated process? 3. What are some more ideas/experiments I could do with the results of the RNA extraction, if it works? Any other advice would be greatly appriciated! THANK YOU! Emily