What the Frack is in the Gap?: Genome Sequencing of Arhodomonas Sp. Seminole

Abstract

Fracking taints soil by continually saturating it in crude oil and salt water. It is necessary to find a better way to clean up this soil to protect the environment. To begin, bacterium was isolated from the soil. Once a pure species of the bacterium, Arhodomonas sp. Seminole, was isolated,DNA was extracted. Using laboratory techniques such as PCR amplification and eventually gel electrophoresis in combination with DNA and RNA sequencing technology online we were able fill in the gap of the unknown genome and find what genes Arhodomonas sp. Seminole has in order to continue research.