Consider, for example, the technique called DNA bar coding, which is based on using short fragments of mitochondrial gene CO1 to uniquely identify and document animal species (Savolainen ...

These were analysed by DNA barcoding, where fragments of plant DNA are identified in pollen trapped in honey. The historic study also looked at pollen grains in honey, but different plants were ...

The Earth is filled with species diversity, much of which remains unknown. While scientists have identified between two and three million species, many more remain undiscovered, often referred to ...