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Student: Abigail Cunningham
Category: Class Project

Abandoned mine drainage is polluting the world and specifically, our drinking water and agriculture. These mines occupy over 500,000 miles of land in the country and they also lead to heavy metal contamination in rivers, lakes, streams, and other natural habitats. Using the methods of serial dilution, PCR, Gel electrophoresis, and the genomic data base Kbase, we isolated and purified single colonies of prokaryotic bacteria and their genomic sequences. We expect to see results that contain high concentrations of heavy metals, bacteria, and other pollutants. It is important that we continue to study abandoned acid mine drainage as it could have harmful impacts on humans, animals, and plants.