Pros of hiring an architect. 1  You, as the owner, have an agent to keep an eye on the contractor and workmanship throughout the project. The architect has a fiduciary responsibility to the owner (under a full service contract). 2  Better design.
Converting centiMorgans into percentages. In order to get an approximate percentage of shared DNA from a Family Tree DNA Family Finder test, take all of the segments above 5 cM, add them together and then divide by 68. The way the calculation works is that your total genome in cMs with the Family Finder test is 6770 cM.
qRT-PCR to determine 16S rRNA gene copy number.To estimate the total number of bacteria during the kimchi fermentation, total genomic DNA from pellets derived from 1.0 ml of kimchi filtrate by centrifugation was extracted using a FastDNA Spin kit (MPbio, Solon, OH) according to the manufacturer's instructions.