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Published 11/05/2009 by Science News Online

Science & the Public: Genome 10K: A new ark

Biologists can tell a lot about how living things evolved by rooting around in their genes, comparing snippets of DNA from supposedly related — or unrelated — species. This only works, of course, if catalogs of those DNA snippets exist. Which they largely...

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Project to collect species' genetic codes

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