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The Urban Barcode Project: Explore New York City's DNA!
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The Urban Barcode Project ( http://www.urbanbarcodeproject.org/ )is a science competition spanning the five boroughs of New York City. Just as a unique pattern of bars in a universal product code identifies each item for sale in a store, a DNA barcode is a DNA sequence that uniquely identifies each species of living thing. In the Urban Barcode Project, student research teams use DNA barcoding to explore biodiversity in New York City.
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DNA competition "New York" barcoding sequencing biodiversity school genetics
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This work by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.Related content:
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