Today we are taking a deep dive into ancestry. We get a lot of questions about the online ancestry tests, you know the ones where you send in a sample and get results back of where your ancestors came from. How exactly do those tests work? Why is it that some people get results that are a lot more specific than others? It all comes down to the sample population. Learn the answers to all of these questions in our latest edition of Science Sunday, watch the full episode below.
There is so much more Science Sunday to explore. Check out the full gallery of segments on our blog: https://ctsciencecenter.org/blog_categories/science-sunday/.
Aoife Ryle is a STEM Educator at the Connecticut Science Center. In addition to working with school groups, she works with our Teen Program, Overnights department, and shoots weekly science segments for WFSB. She has a degree in Bioengineering from the University of Maine and has a personal interest in the life sciences and engineering which makes bioengineering a perfect crossover.
Mark Dixon is a meteorologist on WFSB Channel 3 Eyewitness News and a host of the weekly Science Sunday segments with the Connecticut Science Center. He has been nominated for several Emmy awards for weather anchoring and has won awards from the Connecticut Associated Press Broadcaster’s Association and the American Meteorological Society.
