Photo courtesy of Gustav Paulay
In this article the University of Florida researchers are collecting marine invertebrates on the French Polynesian island of Moorea as part of a massive effort to inventory the DNA sequence of every living species there. They are hoping to get all species of marine invertebrates. The scientists want to cover the macro fauna, but its almost impossible to do that. A scientist named Paulay has been studying these for a while. He estimates more than 5 percent of the macrofauna his team collects are new species.
Do you think that they will be able to reach their goal in getting all of the invertebrates?
What types of techniques do you think they should use to get the DNA?
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