Sample information

It was found on a brick wall outside of school in the morning, and it was about the size of a grain of rice. It shriveled up into a ball after freezing and treating with alcohol, leading to difficulties trying to identify its species. It was later identified as a wasp due to DNA test results.

Methods

Results

The controls worked properly during the gel electrophoresis process, highly decreasing the likelihood of contamination and false positives. If there had been false positives they likely would have been caused by cross contamination, which was not observable in the negative control, so we can infer that there was no cross contamination between samples throughout the process of PCR.