• Question: How long did it take for you to make the glow worms go red and green at the same time?

    Asked by beckiroost1 to Kerstin on 22 Mar 2010 in Categories: .
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      Kerstin Zechner answered on 22 Mar 2010:


      Hey Becki! Usually it’s quite easy to introduce a gene into worms and get it expressed. However, for the research I wanted to do, we had to get these genes into the chromosomes of the worms. So it was very tough… it took about one year.

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