Origins: From Jungle to Lab.  The Story of Life's Complexity
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“If you get a new DNA sequence that you’ve never seen before, you can compare it to all the other sequences on the database. If it’s something that’s unrecognized, then it might be a new species or it might be population variation within existing species. You don’t know. But comparing the DNA gives you extra information about the diversity that’s out there.”—David Johnston, Biological Researcher, Natural History Museum, London
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