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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 Complementary Base Pairing?
What Is a Tetraploid and Why Is It Important?
What Is Mutagenesis? How DNA Is Changed
What Are Intergenic Regions and What Do They Do?
Why Are DNA and RNA Important for All Life?
What Are the Negative Consequences of Genetically Engineered Medicine?
If You Have a Blood Transfusion Does It Change Your DNA?
Genetic Engineering: Techniques and Medical Applications
Pros and Cons of the Human Genome Project
Genetic Mutations: Origins, Mechanisms, and Disease Impact
AT and CG in DNA: What They Are and Why They Pair
Why Does Adenine Pair With Thymine in DNA?
What Is DNA Barcoding and How Does It Work?
What Would Happen If Humans Had Triple Helix DNA?
What Are the Pros and Cons of Genetic Engineering?
Are All Humans Actually Related by Blood?
Somatic Gene Therapy: How It Works and Its Applications
What Is the P53 Gene and How Does It Prevent Cancer?
What Are Transgenic Animals and Why Are They Created?
What Is Plant DNA and What Makes It Unique?
Chromosome 20: Functions, Genes, and Genetic Disorders
What Is Germline Gene Therapy & How Does It Work?
Are Seedless Fruits Genetically Modified?
How to Build a DNA Molecule: A Step-by-Step Process
How to Order BRCA Testing: A Step-by-Step Guide
What Are Housekeeping Genes? Definition, Function & Examples
Human Chromosome 2: Evolution, Genes, and Conditions
Can DNA Be Extracted From a Blood Sample?
Sanger vs. Illumina: Key Differences in DNA Sequencing
Transcriptome vs Genome: Major Differences and Significance