Project:

Assessing the accuracy of the usage of lichens as index organisms through the assessment of lichen species with DNA barc

Students:

Bryant Lee, Jai Yoon Chung, Kengo Kuwama

School:

Tenafly High School, Other

Mentors:

Helen Coyle

Abstract:

We propose to test the precision of lichens as index organisms for sulfur dioxide pollution. We hypothesize that the lichens which we will find in Tenafly will correlate to the amount of sulfur dioxide in the area (we will also find the amount of sulfur dioxide in the area. We will identify the species of lichens by DNA barcoding.

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