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CONGRATULATIONS

to our 2008 DNA Day Essay Contest Winners!!!

 

High School

 

Question #1 Winners-

Discuss the practical implications that genetics research is playing in our lives today. Discuss where is might lead us in the next 10 years.



First place: 

Athol High School

Athol, Massachusetts

 

Second place: 

Montgomery Blair High School

Silver Spring, Maryland

 

Third place:

Archmere Academy

Claymont, Delaware

 

Question #2 Winners

If you were a genetics researcher, what would you like to study and why?

 




First place: 

Aracdia High School

Phoenix, Arizona

 

Second Place:

Archmere Academy

Claymont, Delaware

 

Third Place:

Mercy High School

Burlingame, California

 

 

 

Middle School

 

Question # 1 Winners-

Why is it important for us to discover the patterns of genotypic and phenotypic similarity and difference in living things and why should we understand the theories that describe the importance of genetic diversity for species and ecosystems?

 

First Place:

Chaboya Middle School

San Jose, California

 

Second Place:

Robinson Middle School

Plano, Texas

 

Third Place:

Home School

Virginia

 

Question # 2 Winners

Why is it important for us to learn about our family health history? What can our family health history tell us? What doesn't it tell us?


 

 

 

 

 

First Place:

Cuba City Elementary School

Cuba City, Wisconsin

 

Second Place:

Kepley Middle School

Ulysses, Kansas

 

Third Place:

Owsley County High School

Booneville, Kentucky

 

 

 

 

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