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Identifying World's Species With Genetic Bar Codes

Posted by samzenpus on from the scan-the-fish-first dept.

Fokker writes "Reuters reports that scientists from around the world launched a project on thursday to genetically identify species using bar codes. By taking a snippet of DNA from all the known species on Earth and linking them to photographs, descriptions and scientific information, the researchers plan to build the largest database of its kind."

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  1. A Few Less Species by _Hellfire_ · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The sad part is that by the time they get around to barcoding all of them, we'll have a few less species around to bar code.

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