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ancient DNA

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ancient DNA [¦ān·chənt ¦dē¦en′ā]
(anthropology)
Deoxyribonucleic acid that has been copied and sequenced from individuals representing extinct populations or species. Abbreviated aDNA.
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Project leader Professor Alan Cooper from the University of Adelaide's Australian Centre for Ancient DNA (ACAD) said that New Zealand is recognised as one of the world's "great evolutionary laboratories" due to the absence of land mammals and the radiation of giant flightless birds such as the moa.
DNA from extinct Moa bird rewrites New Zealand's geological history by Asian News International
Research done in part at the ROM using ancient DNA sequences revealed that the dodo was part of an ancient radiation of doves that spread across the Indian Ocean.
Demise of the dodo: why fearlessness wasn't this flightless bird's ... by Haddrath, Oliver / ROM Magazine
Although the last reliable sighting of a living dodo was in the late 17th century, it may one day be possible to reconstruct the species with the ancient DNA from one of these bones.
DODO MAKES ITS COMEBACK IN CITY; Bird skeleton goes on display at ... by Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
 
 
 
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