Project:

Biodiversity and plants

Students:

Leotrim Mehmetaj, Tenzin Ghongwatsang, Zinab Mohamed

School:

Forest Hills High School, Queens

Mentors:

Lisa Tarpinian

Abstract:

We will be testing the effect of pollution on biodiversity. We would like to collect samples from a polluted area in Astoria and a non-polluted area in Astoria. We would like to use DNA barcoding to compare the number of different species in a random sample within a quadrant.

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