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