Science challenge

Prof Syahrilnizam (seated) with the teams from SM Sains Alam Shah, Kuala Lumpur and SMK Sung Siew, Sabah.

ON the surface, we look completely different from one another, but at a genetic level, all humans are the same.

In an attempt to prove this point, one of the experiments conducted during the semi-finals at the National Science Challenge (NSC) 2014 had the contestants extracting DNA from various animal species and testing them to identify which group they belong to.