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| Title: | Tags for Living Beings: The Saga Of DNA Barcode |
| Authors: | Kumar, A. Biju
George, Sanil |
| Issue Date: | Jan-2011 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| Abstract: | In the early 1960s, World War II veteran Gene
Roddenberry brought to air a now famous science fiction drama, Star Trek,
in which a handheld ‘tricorder’ device was used to scan and identify alien life
forms. Though this remains a fancy, today’s
researchers are working on a technology called DNA barcoding that envisages an
inexpensive handheld device the size of
a mobile phone, a DNA barcode
scanner, that
provides quick identification of every species in the world and that could transform people’s relationship with nature! |
| Page(s): | 19-23 |
| CC License: |  CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India |
| ISSN: | 0036-8512 |
| Source: | SR Vol.48(01) [January 2011]
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