{"id":6689,"date":"2015-05-21T09:01:49","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T02:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=6689"},"modified":"2019-03-20T15:44:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T21:44:14","slug":"the-equine-dna-roadmap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/the-equine-dna-roadmap\/","title":{"rendered":"The Equine DNA Roadmap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Genome mapping.&#8221; It&#8217;s a phrase we hear a lot in the 21st century, an age of scientific advances the likes of invisibility cloaks and bioengineered body parts. But what exactly is this road through a species&#8217; heritage, and what do the points along the map tell us about our animals and ourselves?<\/p>\n<p>Before we answer these questions, here\u2019s a quick refresher on DNA in general: Deoxyribonucleic acid is a double-stranded molecule that looks much like a spiraling ladder (Remember those charts on the wall in biology class?)..<\/p>\n<p>To read more this article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehorse.com\/articles\/35734\/the-equine-dna-roadmap?utm_source=Newsletter&amp;utm_medium=nutrition&amp;utm_campaign=05-11-2015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> First described in 1953 by Drs. James Watson, Francis Crick, and Rosalind Franklin, the DNA molecule\u2019s double helix contains all of the information that makes up every living organism<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,40,31],"tags":[278,277],"class_list":["post-6689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry","category-thehorse","category-veterinary-medicine","tag-dna","tag-genome-mapping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8266,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6689\/revisions\/8266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}