Class: _ Date:- Name: Who's the Daddy: Elephant Edition Introduction: As an animal caretaker at one of the largest wildlife reserves in the world, it's your job to watch out for all your animals and keep watch for health problems. You discover that one of your female elephants (Ellie) is pregnant! After 21 long months, she gives birth to a healthy baby male elephant! In order to create a medical history file for your new baby elephant (Elmer), you take DNA samples from Ellie, Elmer, and 5 eligible bachelor males who may have sired the newest addition to the reserve. DNA from Baby and Eligible Parent Elephants Elijah Evan Elmer Edward Eric Ellie Edmund To examine your DNA samples, you use restriction enzymes to digest or "cut the DNA into smaller fragments. In different DNA samples, restriction enzymes that cut only at GAATTC sites will create different fragments. Baby Elmer will share some fragments that match his mom Ellie. Any fragments that are present in Elmer that don't match Ellie's MUST match some of his father's DNA bands. You then run your samples on an agarose gel using the Gel Electrophoresis process. The gel's results are shown below. Lane 8 shows the ladder marker bands. Sample DNA Fragment Sizes (Estimated) 1 (Elmer) 2000 1000 2 (Ellie) 3 (Edward) 800 4 (Edmund) 5 (Evan) 6 (Eric) 7 (Elijah) B 100 The father of baby Elmer is Explain your answer:
