CÓdigos De Barras De Adn

Este es nuestro hogar, vivimos aqui we share home with millions of other species most of whom you know nothing about all these pieces are in need hers and we're closely connected to them fit choices we make effect the species in many different ways but if we don't know who our neighbors our how can we expect to understand impact on the planet's biodiversity using traditional method of taking over two hundred and fifty years to describe one point seven million species at this rate it'll take at least five hundred years to complete the west now you tell me you don't need based tools scientists are building a digital list of all living species on the planet with these new techniques and help from people around the world we can finish the list much sooner even you can help seriously so we can all make a difference in canada the biodiversity institute of ontario is home to idle international barcode of life project in collaboration with people and organizations from around the world we've built a publicly searchable database as short species specific d_n_a_ sequences that functions like a bar code yes a barcode settle into the back of the fine on your groceries your book and gets into everything bites just like these bar codes are unique to consumer products in a bar codes can be used to register and identify different species even from larval forms are fragmentary remains here's how it works d_n_a_ is extracted from any living organism it's barcode is example fight sequence and submitted to the bull database along with information about where and when the specimen was collected so far over seventy thousand species have been bar-coded and with the help comes teams around the world even covered some startling things high school students across north america discovered that twenty five percent of fish sold in supermarkets was mislabeled and in some cases at-risk species were found in stores meanwhile in an apartment in new york city a new species of cockroaches found and across the rat students are beginning to barcode plant to foster global collaboration eyeball is building a social networking game public global biodiversity challenge became is designed to encourage students in schools to collaborate with scientists and participate in d_n_a_ barkley using these genetic tools students can make new discoveries and then just point social issues so join the challenge compete to discover something new gain points for your findings get published in the book dot a base become a citizen scientist and most importantly how all of us better understand i placed alongside our neighbors in the web of life on earth