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DNA 'barcode' for tropical trees

Nov 4, 2009
 
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In foods, soil samples or customs checks, plant fragments sometimes need to be quickly identified. The use of DNA `barcodes` to itemize plant biodiversity was proposed during the 1992 Rio de Janeiro Summit. Jérôme Chave's team... [read full story]                    

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DNA sequencing part 2: ligases and PCR

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