TR3.5

Form and Function in Biodiversity

Houjun Liu 2021-09-27 Mon 12:00

Table of Contents

1 Form and Function in Biodiversity

@alb's favourite thing: Axolotl

1.1 Levels of cell organization

  • Cells
  • Tissues
  • Organ
  • Organ system
  • Organism

1.1.1 Single Cell Sequencing

  1. Isolate single cells
  2. Capture RNA for each cell
  3. Loud box?
  4. Cluster the outputs using a clustering mechanism

(Remember that this is not a PCR reaction, b/c we are transcribing the all of the mRNA and not a segment.)


  • The fatty tissue helps the fish maintain mobility at low

sanger sequencing