Science on the SPOT: Revisiting Albino Redwoods, Cracking the Code
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on Feb 23, 2011 by Chris Bauer
for QUEST Northern CaliforniaTopics: Biology
Science Education Collections: HS Biology
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Albino Redwoods Educator Guide ( pdf ) A resource for using QUEST video and audio in the classroom.
Stanford geneticists Ghia Euskirchen and Barry Starr trek into the Santa Cruz Mountains to uncover the genetic mystery of the rare albino redwood trees. QUEST follows along as they seek to discover the root of the mutation. Taking both albino redwood and normal – or "wild type" – samples back to their lab, they will put them through the genetic ringer and for the first time sequence the complicated redwood genome.
Tags: albino redwoods, treeAdditional Links
- Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park
- Producer's Notes: Science on the SPOT: Albino Redwoods, Ghosts of the Forest
- Solving Mutation Mysteries
- Ghostbusters of the Forest
- Stanford Department of Genetics
- Producer's Notes: Science on the SPOT Revisiting Albino Redwoods
- Redwood Regeneration
