Neanderthal+and+Human+Genomes

Matt Doll, Blair Schuman, Joe Patrick, Shaun Burns, Justin Gillette
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Describe your Topic below: Our topic is to study neanderthal genetics and how they are expressed in humans. Also to discover the relationship between humans and neanderthals and how they evolved.



Brainstorm what you know and what you would like to know:

- Only expressed in Europeans - Lived in Northern Europe - Short Stature - Hunched Over - Scientists are currently researching and mapping their entire genome ||  ||< - Why did they go extinct? - Did interbreeding occur? - How intelligent were they? - How did their culture differ from ours? - Lactose intolerance/tolerance? - Common ancestry? - Basic theories? ||
 * = ** What we (think) we know ** ||=  ||= What we would like to know / understand ||
 * < - Neanderthals are extinct (maybe hiding)


 * Craft a Driving Question: **

How are neanderthal genes still expressed in the human genome today, and to what extent are these genes present?


 * Background Research **[[image:Kngine.png width="279" height="89" align="right" link="@http://kngine.com/"]]

USE FOR PREZI - Range of neanderthal expansion along with comparison of skulls. Time Magazine article on Neanderthal Genome

AAAS Resources on the Neanderthal Genome and it's significance. Includes timeline, Methods, Comparative genomics

NPR audio story with linksmedia type="file" key="20090213_me_06.mp3" width="240" height="20" - Discusses Lactose intolerance vs. Lactose tolerance of neanderthals.

Neanderthal Genome Project - Trying to sequence and reconstrust genome based on bone marrow anlysis.

Wikipedia Article with several Links

-Human skeleton compared with that of a neanderthal. Gene expression in Humans - How when mixed whith neanderthals, humans exhibited breakthroughs in technology, culture, and relations.

Extinction of Neanderthals - Explains in great detail how neanderthals became extinct, mostly because of humans.

Neanderthal Gene Study - Story of relations between humans and neanderthals and possible mating may have occured.

Suggestion of Neanderthals mating with humans - Great quantity of information, quality is subpar.

- Skull comparison of neanderthal vs. human. Interbreeding genome - Very useful, answers many of the questions we have and further expands to an answer for the driving question.

[|Neanderthal Traits BBC] - More of the same information, limited useability.

- A neanderthal hunting with a spear. [|Neanderthal Genome] - Very much of the same basic info, useful timelime and the comparative genomics tab is what we really want to look at. media type="custom" key="8398602" These links provide a better understanding as to what neanderthals habits. They also provide specifics from food to traits. The Neandethals

Homo neanderthalensis

[|Neanderthals and modern humans]