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Tamika Ogilvie

Tamika Ogilvie is a science writer at Biology Insights with a specialty in genetics. She spent years instructing biotechnology students at a technical high school, directing laboratory sequencing projects alongside regional research partners, and also worked as a quality control analyst in private industry. Ogilvie received a bachelor’s degree in biotechnology from Kansas State University.

What Is the Difference Between Embryonic and Adult Stem Cells?
What Is Phenotyping and Why Is It So Important?
What Was Transformed in Griffith’s Experiment?
What Is Compaction? From DNA to Digestion
Does Transcription Need a Primer?
Why Is Transduction Important in Biology and Medicine?
How Is Biotechnology Different From Genetic Modification?
What Is Genetic Transformation and How Does It Work?
Are Operons Only Found in Prokaryotes?
How Are Plasmids Used in Genetic Engineering?
What Is Polyploidy in Biology and How Does It Occur?
What Is an Isoform and Why Is It Important in Biology?
How the Human Proteome Project Differs From the Genome Project
What Is a Monoploid in Biology?
What Are the 3 Parts That Make Up a Nucleotide?
How Long Do Clones Live? The Science of Clone Longevity
What Enzyme Do the Blue People Lack?
What Is Biological Sexing and Why Is It Important?
What Are Splice Variants and Why Do They Matter?
What Are Knock-In Mice and Why Are They Important?
Diploid vs. Tetraploid: Key Differences in Organisms